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Auction archive: Lot number 303

AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- HORRY, Peter. - The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer, in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia.

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$432 - US$576
Price realised:
£700
ca. US$1,009
Auction archive: Lot number 303

AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- HORRY, Peter. - The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer, in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia.

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$432 - US$576
Price realised:
£700
ca. US$1,009
Beschreibung:

The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer, in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia.
Baltimore: M. L. Weems, 1814. 12mo (172 x 102 mm). Contemporary tree sheep. Condition : foxing and staining; worn, front joint starting. Second edition (and among the earliest obtainable). "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of that Horry became indignant and disclaimed all connection with the book. Unabashed, Weems continued its publication through many editions" (Howes). Howes H650; Sabin 33044.

Auction archive: Lot number 303
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer, in the Revolutionary War against the British and Tories, in South-Carolina and Georgia.
Baltimore: M. L. Weems, 1814. 12mo (172 x 102 mm). Contemporary tree sheep. Condition : foxing and staining; worn, front joint starting. Second edition (and among the earliest obtainable). "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of that Horry became indignant and disclaimed all connection with the book. Unabashed, Weems continued its publication through many editions" (Howes). Howes H650; Sabin 33044.

Auction archive: Lot number 303
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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