Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 55

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Smyth, John Ferdinand Dalziel. A Tour in the United States of America. [10], iv, [10], 400; [12], 455, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary polished calf, joints split, otherwise minor wear; minor foxing, lacking first rear free endpaper, bookplates removed from front pastedowns; Earl of Portsmouth signatures on front pastedowns. (MRS) London, 1784
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first edition. An account by an Englishman who settled in Virginia shortly before the war, offering the Loyalist perspective. His travels also took him through the Carolinas, Kentucky, down the Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Maryland. Sabin quotes John Randolph: "This book, although replete with calumny and falsehood, contains the truest picture of the state of society and manners in Virginia." Clark, Old South II:62; Howes S730 ("aa"); Sabin 85254.