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Colonial Town-Planning.- [Sharp (Granville)] A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote Cultivation, and raise the Value of all the adjoining Land..., 24pp., second edition, folding engraved plan with partial hand-colouring, stitched in original stiff pink wrappers, a little soiled and faded, spine worn and frayed at head, [Sabin 79822], 8vo, [W.Calvert, printer], 1804.
*** Scarce second edition (first published in 1794) of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was the noted abolitionist Granville Sharp, who founded Freetown in Sierra Leone in 1787 for freed African slaves. Only 4 copies listed on COPAC (BL, Durham University, King's College London, and York Minster).](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/388cb6e9-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/de2384d0-be91-ee11-8178-002248070a4a.webp "42
Colonial Town-Planning.- [Sharp (Granville)] A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote Cultivation, and raise the Value of all the adjoining Land..., 24pp., second edition, folding engraved plan with partial hand-colouring, stitched in original stiff pink wrappers, a little soiled and faded, spine worn and frayed at head, [Sabin 79822], 8vo, [W.Calvert, printer], 1804.
*** Scarce second edition (first published in 1794) of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was the noted abolitionist Granville Sharp, who founded Freetown in Sierra Leone in 1787 for freed African slaves. Only 4 copies listed on COPAC (BL, Durham University, King's College London, and York Minster).")
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Colonial Town-Planning.- [Sharp (Granville)] A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote Cultivation, and raise the Value of all the adjoining Land..., 24pp., second edition, folding engraved plan with partial hand-colouring, stitched in original stiff pink wrappers, a little soiled and faded, spine worn and frayed at head, [Sabin 79822], 8vo, [W.Calvert, printer], 1804.
⁂ Scarce second edition (first published in 1794) of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was the noted abolitionist Granville Sharp, who founded Freetown in Sierra Leone in 1787 for freed African slaves. Only 4 copies listed on COPAC (BL, Durham University, King's College London, and York Minster).
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Colonial Town-Planning.- Sharp (Granville) A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote Cultivation, and raise the Value of all the adjoining Land..., second edition, folding engraved plan, 1804.
Hammer Price: £1,600
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Colonial Town-Planning.- [Sharp (Granville)] A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or elsewhere; in order to promote Cultivation, and raise the Value of all the adjoining Land..., 24pp., second edition, folding engraved plan with partial hand-colouring, stitched in original stiff pink wrappers, a little soiled and faded, spine worn and frayed at head, [Sabin 79822], 8vo, [W.Calvert, printer], 1804.
⁂ Scarce second edition (first published in 1794) of a guide for settlers and officials in the colonies. The author was the noted abolitionist Granville Sharp, who founded Freetown in Sierra Leone in 1787 for freed African slaves. Only 4 copies listed on COPAC (BL, Durham University, King's College London, and York Minster).
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