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Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1818. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Full leather hardcover gilt and label to spine. Front board shows fraying of the leather along the right side fore edge and has a very slight bow. Front and rear end pages and pastedowns show handwriting and signatures and heavy foxing, but no serious hinge cracks. Interior pages show foxing minor to heavy in the quadrant of pages 19 - 22 was not correctly bound, so the bottom half is not attached, causes the pages to stick out on the outside edge. A couple pages had corner folds. Copyright page states second edition.

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Winchester, VA: J. F. Archbold, 1816 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Fair with heavily rubbed corners, edges; moderate foxing; ffep detached but present; good reading copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Winchester, Va.: Published by J.F. Archbold. J. Foster, Printer, 1816. Contemporary full leather [moderately rubbed] with gilt-lettered spine. 512pp, considerable foxing. A Good or Good+ copy. First printed in London. 1795 printings in New York and Philadelphia were the first American editions. This offering enjoys the distinction of being the first Winchester edition, a later one having issued in 1818. AI 39881 [5]. Haynes 21914. Swem 6686. 675 NUC 0469353 [5].

Folio. New York: Birdsall and Menut, 1795. Folio, 420 pp., 28 plates, lacking final four leaves [list of subscribers?], one plate, and the folding map. Period-style sprinkled calf, backstrip with gilt-ruled raised bands and red gilt-stamped label. Frontis. and title-page remounted, pages moderately foxed and stained throughout, several plates with closed tears, old repairs and occasional loss. § First American edition, published the same year in Philadelphia. Evans 29928. "First published in thirty numbers, of sixteen pages and an engraving, each. The completed volume bearing the date of the first number, although publication was not completed until 1796 or 1797. The Philadelphia edition differs from the New York edition only in its title page." Evans 29927 [Philadelphia edition]. The engravings are from several sources and are signed by Tanner (frontis.), Rollinson, Tisdale, Scoles, and Anderson, among others. The London first edition (1790?), which boasts an even more loquacious title page,… Read More

New York: Birdsall and Menut, No. 80 Cherry-Street, 1795. First American edition. Hardcover. Good +, restored with new leather period spine, new label, original leather covers retained, New old-stock and appropriate endpapers added. Folding map complete but with tears and folds, ancient dampstaining to the last three sheets.. Full brown leather, with red leather name tag on front cover. Frontispiece, title-page, (blank), 2-pp. Preface, folding map, (blank), engraving, pp. 5-428. A TOTAL of 31 engravings, some causing offsetting to the opposite page, some not. Evans 29928. Frontispiece by Tanner, engraved plates and double-page map. Ownership label of Samuel Provoost, D.D. on front cover, as well as his bookplate inside front cover (engraved by Maverick, aka Peter Rushton Maverick). As per Wiki, Provoost was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, as well as the third (possibly the second) Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA. He was consecrated as bishop of New York in 1787… Read More