Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. Amicitiae Sacrum

John Disney

T. Gillet, 1808

Folio, 37 cm.  Bound in contemporary boards, rebacked on later cloth.  Edge wear, chipping to cover extremities.  [Small tag reads: Restored J. MacDonald, Norwalk, Conn].  vii, 60 pages. Frontispiece portrait and 9 engraved plates (1 double page). Light foxing to frontispiece, scattered foxing to plates. Untrimmed. "The Subject of this memoir was a liberal benefactor to Harvard College, friend and correspondent of John Adams." Sabin 20268.   See also: Caroline Robbins, "Thomas Brand Hollis (1719–1804), English Admirer of Franklin and Intimate of John Adams," Amer. Philos. Soc., Procs., 97 (1953) : 239–247.