BOSWELL, James (1740-95). An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli, Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. 8°, half title, folding engraved map of Corsica by Thomas Phinn, engraved armorial device on title page (map offset onto upper half of half title, some very light spotting). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed, neatly rebacked). Provenance: Reginald Roose Francis (armorial bookplate); "William Rees Mogg Bought Sotheby's July 1958" (pencil inscription on front free endpaper). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, with map in the second state, "Table of Contents" after the Preface, D2 in first state and E2 and Z3 cancellans as usual. Gaskell Foulis 473; Pottle 24; Rothschild 442.