Americas.- British American Land Company. Information respecting the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada...for the Sale and Settlement of Lands..., first edition, folding lithographed map with partial hand-colouring, folding table (bound in tightly so that unable to fold out), 1833 bound with Grainger (James) An Essay on the more common West-India Diseases; and...some hints on the Management, &c of Negroes, second edition, lacking half-title, 8pp. publishers' catalogue and additional advertisement leaf for the author's poetical works at end, some light foxing, Edinburgh, 1802, together 2 works in 1 vol., modern morocco-backed marbled boards, spine slightly faded, 8vo

⁂ Both scarce. The second work, originally published in 1764, was by a physician and poet who also wrote The Sugar Cane, a long poem describing the cultivation of sugar. The present work was highly regarded for its humane proposals for slave-management and this edition includes at the end a list of West Indian plants Grainger recommended for medical purposes, with their Linnaean names.