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[COLQUHOUN, PATRICK.]. A Treatise on the Police of London; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors...and Suggesting Remedies for Their Prevention?ĶBy a Magistrate. Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Davies, 1798. 1st American edition.  8vo. 14,[5], 342, 24 pp. Contemp. calf, sound, but lacking top half of backstrip. $275.00

 

Evans 33538. Complete with the folding table, half-title and directions to the binder. An important writer on sociological and economic subjects, this is the work which brought Colquhoun the most attention, first published in London in 1796. He was active as a merchant for five years in Virginia during the 1760s.