[CARTE, THOMAS.] A Full Answer to the Letter from a By-Stander, &c.Wherein His false Calculations, and Misrepresentations of Facts in the Time of King Charles II. are refuted [etc.]. 8vo, original wrappers, spine partly cracked and perished, stains and contemporary inscription on front cover; scattered marginal foxing; uncut. London: J. Robinson, 1742
first edition of Carte's reply to a 1741 pamphlet by Corbyn Morris on the financing of a large standing army and the dependence of the power of the crown upon economic factors. Alden 742/36 (for references to the cost of British garrisons in the plantations).
