Corsica.- Foulis.- Boswell (James) An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli, first edition, half-title, engraved title vignette, folding engraved map by Thomas Phinn (in second state with imprint), final f. blank, map with some offsetting and lightly browned, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in modern speckled calf in compartments and with red leather label, corners worn, covers rubbed and little marked, [Gaskell 473; Rothschild 442], 8vo, Glasgow, Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. *** Boswell visited Corsica in the autumn of 1766, having been inspired by Rousseau to meet with General Pasquale Paoli, the leader of the Corsican independence movement. This account of the islanders' attempts to forge a new democratic nation independent of Genoa was widely read and translated. Our copy with D2 uncancelled; Contents f. (b2) follows Preface; E2 cancelled; p.67, ll.11&12 'Is-tria'; Z3 cancelled (p.357 'Mariana' in penultimate line corrected to 'Mariani'); p.70, l.17 'Ftruscans'; p.93, l.6 'of'; p.137, l.11 'feelirg'; p.172, l.9 'tha the'; p.184, l.4 'Montgomerÿ'; p.296, l.18 'of my own'; and p.327, ll.9&10 'speculati-ions'. Provenance: Sir Joseph Copley, Bt. (engraved armorial bookplate).