Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 311

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(REVOLUTION.) Raynal, Abbe Guillaume. A Philosophical and Political History of the British Settlements and Trade in North America . . . to which is annexed, an Impartial History of the Present War in America. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and recased; minor foxing, tear at head of title page with minor loss, cellotape stains to the terminal leaf. Edinburgh, 1779

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Raynal's work on trade in the West Indies was first issued in 1776. But this Edinburgh 1779 edition is the first to include the anonymous history of the Revolution. "The History . . . was one of the earliest histories of the Revolutionary movement"--Howes R84; Sabin 68094.