THOMPSON, Thomas (1708/9-1773). An Account of Two Missionary Voyages... for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Benjamin Dodd, 1758.
THOMPSON, Thomas (1708/9-1773). An Account of Two Missionary Voyages... for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Benjamin Dodd, 1758. 8 o (197 x 120 mm). (Last leaf backed covering advertisement on verso of G4.) Quarter calf boards (spine worn and cracked, joints cracked); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Robert Dinwiddie (1692-1770, bookplate on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. VIRGINIA ROYAL LIUETENANT GOVERNOR ROBERT DINWIDDIE'S COPY of Thompson's account of his proselytizing efforts in the American colonies and along the west coast of Africa on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He was the first Anglican missionary to Africa, and two decades later wrote a defense of the slave trade at the behest of the S.P.G., which was active in the trade. WITH A FINE COLONIAL PROVENANCE: Robert Dinwiddie was a royal customs official and lieutenant governor of Virginia, born in Edinburgh. He may have visited North America before settling in Bermuda in the 1710s. Commissioned later as a surveyor general, he choice to go to Virginia and settled there in 1741. "Until his retirement and departure in mid-January 1758, Dinwiddie labored diligently at his duties. He was a tireless dictator of letters and kept up an informative correspondence with a wide variety of people in Virginia and elsewhere. As a dedicated administrator he appears to have been well above average, and as a persistent advocate of the wider British interest he appears to have been consistent and inflexible. Dinwiddie remained financially ambitious, and along with many native Virginians he cast covetous eyes on the unsettled western lands" ( ANB ). His most important decisions involved the West, most notably in choosing then Major George Washington as his agent to deliver a message to the French commanders in the Great Lakes, demanding that they leave the lands claimed by the British crown and the colony of Virginia. "Dinwiddie's demand and the French rejection of it precipitated the French and Indian War" ( ANB ). Howes T-203; Sabin 95529.
THOMPSON, Thomas (1708/9-1773). An Account of Two Missionary Voyages... for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Benjamin Dodd, 1758.
THOMPSON, Thomas (1708/9-1773). An Account of Two Missionary Voyages... for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. London: Benjamin Dodd, 1758. 8 o (197 x 120 mm). (Last leaf backed covering advertisement on verso of G4.) Quarter calf boards (spine worn and cracked, joints cracked); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Robert Dinwiddie (1692-1770, bookplate on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION. VIRGINIA ROYAL LIUETENANT GOVERNOR ROBERT DINWIDDIE'S COPY of Thompson's account of his proselytizing efforts in the American colonies and along the west coast of Africa on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He was the first Anglican missionary to Africa, and two decades later wrote a defense of the slave trade at the behest of the S.P.G., which was active in the trade. WITH A FINE COLONIAL PROVENANCE: Robert Dinwiddie was a royal customs official and lieutenant governor of Virginia, born in Edinburgh. He may have visited North America before settling in Bermuda in the 1710s. Commissioned later as a surveyor general, he choice to go to Virginia and settled there in 1741. "Until his retirement and departure in mid-January 1758, Dinwiddie labored diligently at his duties. He was a tireless dictator of letters and kept up an informative correspondence with a wide variety of people in Virginia and elsewhere. As a dedicated administrator he appears to have been well above average, and as a persistent advocate of the wider British interest he appears to have been consistent and inflexible. Dinwiddie remained financially ambitious, and along with many native Virginians he cast covetous eyes on the unsettled western lands" ( ANB ). His most important decisions involved the West, most notably in choosing then Major George Washington as his agent to deliver a message to the French commanders in the Great Lakes, demanding that they leave the lands claimed by the British crown and the colony of Virginia. "Dinwiddie's demand and the French rejection of it precipitated the French and Indian War" ( ANB ). Howes T-203; Sabin 95529.
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