Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Soulés, François. Histoire des Troubles de l'Amérique Anglaise. 3 folding maps, detached but present. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear and worming; intermittent foxing; includes ad leaves and half-titles. Paris, 1787

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Second and best edition. "The best French history of this war; Rochambeau aided in its preparation"--Howes S770. Includes a large map of eastern North America from Florida to Canada (with a small inset engraving of Niagara Falls), and two smaller maps on blue paper with hand-colored highlights depicting the march from Boston to Yorktown, and the Siege of Yorktown. Nebenzahl 185, 198; Sabin 87290.