America & The North Pole.- Barrington (Hon. Daines) Miscellanies, first edition, 2 engraved maps (1 folding), 2 engraved portraits (one of the young Mozart, see below), 5 genealogical tables (1 folding), with a preface paginated *471-*477 and signed *0004-7 inserted between pp.470-471, water-staining to inner gutters of first few ff., spotting or light foxing, lightly browned, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments and with black leather label, corners and lower edges worn, rubbed, [Hill 56; Sabin 3628], 4to, Printed by J. Nichols, 1781.

⁂ Includes 'Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole'; 'Whether the Turkey was known before the Discovery of America', 'Account of Mozart, a very remarkable young Musician' with portrait of the young composer (the first published portrait, reprinted from Philosophical Transactions of 1770); 'Journal of a Spanish Voyage in 1775, to explore the Western Coast of N. America' (with map). The latter is the first and only contemporary account in English of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan waters. There is also much relating to Thomas Pennant.

Provenance: Lord Lloyd Kenyon (bookplate).