Edition statement printed between "And an alphabetcal [sic] index" and "To which is annexed, an Appendix ..." on title page.

Original French edition attributed to Pierre Massuet by the Bibliotheque nationale de France online catalogue.

This is the second English edition; a first English edition was printed for John Stagg and Daniel Browne without an appendix in the same year, as well as a third English edition printed for Daniel Browne.

Translation, by John Campbell, of: La vie du Duc de Ripperda, first printed in 2 volumes, Amsterdam, 1739.

"An appendix, containing some papers on the balance of Europe, the present state of Spain, and the consequences of a war in the West-Indies", p. [353]-390, has divisional title page.

Includes numerous references to British and Spanish commerce in the West Indies.

Signatures: A-2B⁸ (A1, A2, 2A1 versos blank) 2C⁴

Includes index.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 2nd count, and p. [1-2], 4th count.

Engraved head and tail pieces.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 157593.

European Americana 740/206.

English short title catalogue N4086.

John Carter Brown Library copy has a letter from the count of Kinigsegg dated the 14th of February 1726, which was originally tipped in before front flyleaf, and now housed in the JCB bibliographical file.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: A.M. Broadley: book plate on front pastedown.