Description: John Moore was a Scottish doctor hired in 1769 to attend and travel with the 15-year-old Duke of Hamilton. the young Duke succumbed to consumption, but several years later, Moore was asked to attend to the next Duke and accompany him on his Grand Tour as “bear leader”. In 1792, he travele with the Earl of Lauderdale who had been involved in two affairs of honor and who was advised to leave England for a time. During this visit, Moore witnessed many of the events of the French Revolution including the attack on the Tuileries and the September Massacres. Acceptable Condition: 8vo: boards off and replaced by modern boards to protect and support the block: volume one only: pencil on free spare: soiling, foxing and shading from inks: browning to the paper: edge wear: cracked and shattered spine: “Journal Durant un Sejour en France Depuis le commencement d’aout jusqu’a la mi December 1792; auquel est amounted un refit des evenemens les plus remarquables qui ont Eu Lieu a Paris, depuis cette epoque, jusqu’a la mort du feu roi de France”: tradition de l’Anglais de John Moore Dr. M.: John Moore: Philadelphia: Mathew Carey: 1794. FORN-Shelf-559-RAREA1794ACDA
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: French
Author: John Moore
Publisher: Mathew Carey
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: European
Subject: History
Year Printed: 1794
Original/Facsimile: Original
