STRICTURES ON NATIONAL PRIDE, by Johann Georg Zimmerman.

PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold by R. Bell, 1778. First American Edition.

Contemporary calf covers, five raised spine bands, 8vo. 5x7.5 inches, 274, [6] pages.

Strictures on National Pride is a 1778 work by Johann Georg Zimmermann, a German physician and writer, which was translated into English the same year. The original German title was: Beiträge zur Charakteristik des menschlichen Gemüths (Contributions to the Characterization of the Human Mind), but the English translation focused on the section about national pride, and thus the new title. The work examines the phenomenon of national pride, its origins, and its potential consequences. An interesting Revolutionary War era work on National Pride.

IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY: Provenance of WELCOME ARNOLD, with his bookplate on the front pastedown.

GOOD PLUS condition: Spine professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, tight, lovely copy. The covers have some scrapes, are worn through at the corner tips, overall are nice and solid; internally, the endpapers have offsetting to their margins from the leather covers, the inner pages have some light toning and a crease or two, otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

A complete, solid, very presentable copy of this work with the important, early New England association to Welcome Arnold.

About WELCOME ARNOLD (from Wikipedia):

******Welcome Arnold, b.1745 d.1798, was a Colonial American politician and merchant. He was a descendant of William Arnold, one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Arnold, a member of the Sons of Liberty, was involved in the planning of the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, which later became known as the Gaspee affair. Occurring three years before the Boston Tea Party, it is considered the first act of civil disobedience against the Crown. A prominent merchant in the New England-Caribbean trade, Arnold was "also a leader in the fight to end Rhode Island's involvement in the African slave trade". He served as a trustee of Brown University.******

About JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMAN (from Wikipedia):

******Johann Georg Zimmermann, b.1728 d.1795, was a Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician. He was the private physician of George III and later Frederick the Great.******