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Lot 227
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020
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Nov 13, 2020
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GORDON, William (1728-1807). The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their Origin to that Period. New York: Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, 1789.
3 volumes, 8vo (208 x 130 mm). (Lacking 2 folding maps, as usual; some toning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (separation to joints, vol.II upper joint with contemporary stab-sewn repair, overall rubbing). Provenance: Garret Lydecker (signature to vol.I); Mrs. H. C. Brown (signature to vol.II).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION with the long list of subscriber’s names to vol.III as called for by Sabin. “Gordon is deservedly reckoned as one of the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution” (Sabin). Howes G-256; Sabin 28011.