Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) "Cooper, Rev. Mr." [Johnson, Richard?]. The History of North America. 6 plates. 12mo, later morocco by Riviere & Son; gilt edges. Bennington, VT, 1793

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first american edition of a British juvenile history of the Revolution, illustrated with crude copper-plate engravings of Bunker Hill, the Boston Tea Party, and an allegorical frontispiece titled "America Trampling on Oppression." Evans 25347; Howes C761; McCorison 258. This edition not in Rosenbach''s Children''s Books or Sabin; no other copies found at auction.