MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART.

First Edition. Hardback. 2 vols. 8vo. Pp viii, 362; ii, 427. Original publisher's green cloth backed boards with printed paper title labels to spines. Spines a little faded, printed spine labels rubbed and slightly tanned and inner hinges slightly cracked. Very slightly shaken as must be usual wit this style of binding. Overall decent vg copies. Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, PC MP FRS FRSE FSA (10 May 1754 Ð 21 December 1835) was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes. The book is by his son the Rev John Sinclair.