Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 463

Price Realized: $ 115
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Letters from General Washington to Several of his Friends . . . in which is set forth an Interesting View of American Politics. [3]-44 pages; lacks the half-title. 8vo, disbound; A4 torn, foxing, terminal leaf chipped; early ink inscription on the title "commencement of a pack of infernal Lies from a tory Press." Philadelphia, 1795

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"These are the same spurious Letters which were industriously circulated in 1778 by James Rivington, and which Washington then declared to be forgeries, and were now republished because of his attitude on Jay's Treaty. The supposed author of the Letters is said to be John Randolph"--Evans 28969; Sabin 101741.