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Thick quarto; Frontispiece, 97,578,[3], facsimile plate. Complete. Contemporary quarter dark straight grained morocco over original papered boards. Slight wear, joints and hinges are sound. With the bookplate and ownership signature of Hugh Percy, the Third Duke of Northumberland, who was Lord Lt of Ireland under Wellington. Subscribers list. The main body of the work comprises Journal of a Tour in Holland, Germany and France 1748-1749. This is followed by Introduction to the Third Voyage of Captain Cook, followed by a Sermon and religious work. G-VG copy. Extra postage will be required for abroad. ****** John Douglas (14 July 1721 ? 18 May 1807) was a Scottish scholar and Anglican bishop.[1] Douglas was born at Pittenweem, Fife, the son of a shopkeeper, and was educated at Dunbar, East Lothian, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained his M.A. degree in 1743.[1] As chaplain to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, he was at the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. He then returned to Balliol as a Snell Exhibitioner; became Vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire in 1750;[1] a Canon of Windsor, namely Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor (1762?1776); a member of the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral in 1777; Bishop of Carlisle in 1787; Dean of Windsor in 1788; and Bishop of Salisbury in 1791. As Bishop of Salisbury he was also ex officio Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. Other honours were the degree of DD (1758), and those of Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[1] Douglas was not an outstanding churchman. He preferred to stay in London in winter and at fashionable watering places in summer. Under the patronage of the Earl of Bath he entered into several literary controversies. He defended John Milton against William Lauder's charge of plagiarism (1750), and attacked David Hume's rationalism in his Letter on the Criterion of Miracles (1754); he went on to criticise the followers of John Hutchinson in his Apology for the Clergy (1755). He also edited Captain Cook's Journals, and Clarendon's Diary and Letters (1763). A volume of Miscellaneous Works; prefaced by a short biography, was published posthumously in 1820. Seller Inventory # 027123
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