[Rarebooks] FS: Memoirs of an American Lady, 1809

[Charles Agvent]

 From our upcoming annual Summer Miscellany Catalogue due to be posted on our 
home page within a month.  It will contain a variety of fine and unusual itesm, 
including interesting Americana titles such as this:

[GRANT, Anne MacVicar]. MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY: WITH SKETCHES
OF  MANNERS  AND SCENERY IN AMERICA, AS THEY EXISTED PREVIOUS  TO  THE
REVOLUTION.  Boston:  W.  Wells  et. al. 1809.  First
American  Edition, published the previous year in England. Two volumes
bound  in  one  in  original cloth-backed boards with  a  paper  spine
label.  There  was also a one-volume New York edition published  later
the  same year. Complete with both title pages and endpapers including
the  blank leaf between the volumes: [4], 158 [2]; [2], ii, 161 pages.
Howes  G-303;  Sabin  28296.  Memoir of the widow  of  Colonel  Philip
Schuyler,  Revolutionary War hero and American statesman, with much on
her  life  in and the history of Albany and the  relationship  between
the  Albanians  and  the  Mohawk Indians.  Light  to  moderate  foxing
throughout.   The  later  one-volume  New   York  edition  is  readily
available.  This true First American Edition, however, is quite scarce
with  no  copies  appearing  at auction in at least  the  last  thirty
years. Near Fine in original binding.                          $750.00

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