WITHERS, Alexander (1792-1865). Chronicles of Border Warfare. Clarksburg, VA: Joseph Israel, 1831.
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Nov 12, 2020
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Lot Description
WITHERS, Alexander (1792-1865). Chronicles of Border Warfare. Clarksburg, VA: Joseph Israel, 1831.
12mo (178 x 105 mm). Advertisements at end. (Scattered spotting, a few marginal pencil annotations.) Contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine gilt in 5 compartments, leather gilt-lettered spine label (a few scuffs, some creasing on spine).
FIRST EDITION of Wither's "scarce book [of which] very few copies are complete or in good condition. Having been issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed principally for a local circulation, almost every copy was read by a country fire-side until scarcely legible...The author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed."(Field 1690). Howes W-601; Sabin 104928.
Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, Kentucky
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