Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) [Langworthy, Edward.] Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee. 12mo, contemporary calf, tastefully recased and rejointed with original endpapers, moderate wear; bookplate removed from front pastedown, minor dampstaining on top edge; early owners' signatures on front free endpaper and title page. New York, 1792

Additional Details

first american edition. Biography of the British soldier of fortune who served as second in command of the Continental Army under Washington. "Said to have been edited by Thomas Paine under the direction of Langworthy"--Howes L83. Evans 24456; Sabin 38903. No other copy of this edition known at auction since 1985.