[Rarebooks] FS: William Gordon's History of the American Revolution (1794)

[Ezra Tishman]

Good afternoon. 

Ezra from Aardvark offers a history of the new United States of America, and of the war that brought about that union.  Howes has called this book,  the “first full-scale history of this war by an American, to its preparation Jefferson contributed some aid”.
Of its author, Sabin wrote: ""Gordon is deservedly reckoned as one of the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution”

Gordon, William. (1794) 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
(3 VOLUMES, Complete). 
																															$1350.    ($950 net if purchased directly today, 03-25-2021)

3 vol. 8vo.Tree calf, rebacked. Gilt stamp of the Society of the Writers to the Signet on front and rear covers ( on Vols. I & II, three of the boards are fully detached but present, and on Vol. II, weak). Contrasting red spine labels, lettered in gilt, and the 8 compartments double-ruled in gilt between compartments. TWO folding maps 2nd American edition transposed before vol 1.on title page. Vol. 1: 431 p., folded map before title page. p203 misnumbered 103 v. 2: 460 p., v. 3 18-448 [i.e. 450] pp. Light foxing and age tanning; entire text block of all three volumes generally
very bright and readable.

As minister of the Third Parish Church of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Gordon gave a fiery sermon on the eve of the American Revolution which made his reputation. He wrote this history in London after the war.  

"First full-scale history of this war by an American; to its preparation Jefferson contributed some aid" (Howes G-256)
"Gordon is deservedly reckoned as one of the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution (Sabin 28011;)


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