Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
THE BRINLEY COPY (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Drayton, John. Memoirs of the American Revolution . . . as Relating to the State of South-Carolina. 3 maps, frontispiece portrait. 2 volumes. 8vo, later 1/2 calf, minor wear; moderate foxing; auction tag, library bookplate, and withdrawal stamp on front pastedowns. Charleston, SC, 1821
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Based on the papers of the author's father William Henry Drayton, a delegate to the Continental Congress. Generally seen with two folding maps; this copy has an additional map facing page I:389. Howes D491 ("aa"); Sabin 20914. Provenance: George Brinley auction, March 1880, lot 3862, where it fetched the then-substantial sum of $21.