Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 96
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(CANADA.) [Fleet, William Henry, a.k.a. "Hon. Francis Thistleton."] How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona. Text illustrations. 220 pages. Contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear, backstrip chipped; flyleaf chipped, lacks half-title; early owner's name on half-title. Montreal, 1852

Additional Details

first edition. "A satire upon Colonial Governors and their administrations, and upon the Canadian Government in particular."--Sabin 24689 (listing 1853 as the first edition). Lande 1766; TPL 3246.