American Revolution from Dorley House Books

Providence, RI: A. Crawford Greene, State Printer, 1862. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo; 2.5 Pounds. First Edition, First Printing; brown cloth w/moderate wear at spine/tips; ownr's names; 643 clean, unmarked pages; in mylar protective wraps

London: J. Debrett, 1782. Leatherbound. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. 3/4 brown calf w/green boards, moderate wear at spine/tips, some rubbing; lite and scattered froxing; Volume 15 in two parts of an annual publication printed in London...Contains many official reports and letters about the Revolutionary War, a valuable source and extremely scarce

Baltimore, MD: William Ogden Niles, 1822. 1st . Leatherbound. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8 Vo; 2 Pounds. 1st printing; 3/4 brown leather w/marbled boards; wear at spine & tips, wrinkled end papers; 495 pages, ex-library and rebound, little foxing on title-page otherwise very good. Howes N154, Sabin 55312. Documents are arranged by state. Includes Orations… Read more about this item

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1908. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo; 2.5 Pounds. Frontis. First Edition, First Printing; brown c w/rubbing at spine/tips;lite sunning of covers; 295 pages; Top edge gilt; in mylar protective wraps

Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1883. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo; 2.5 Pounds. Fully Illustrated, Many Tipped-in Colored Plates--photos By Helga Schmidt-Glassner. First Edition, First Printing; 424 pages; black cloth w/lite shelf rubbing; in mylar protective wraps

London: R. And J. Dodsley, 1760. 3rd . Leatherbound. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo. Third Edition with Improvements; pp. [8], xii, 324; xii, 308; sans frontispiece maps; 1/2 brown leather rebacked spine in cloth, lite wear at extremities...Howes B974- "Best contemporary account. Actually written by William Burke, but usually ascribed to his more famous kinsman who gave… Read more about this item

New Haven, Connecticut: Nathan Whiting, 1834. 6th . Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8 Vo; 2 Pounds. Steel Engravings. Sixth Edition, Revised; full brown leather; moderate wear at edges; 1" chip from top spine; marbled end papers; light foxing, but tight & bright still; 464 clean, unmarked pages+biography of author

Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 Vo; 2 Pounds. frontispiece and 4 Maps. Lamb was born in New York in Jan. 1735, before the Revolution he was a wine merchant, after being an optican like his father. He was attached to General Montgomery's detachment during Arnold's attack of Quebec and served under Arnold… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: Campion & Company, 1904. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 Vo; 3 Pounds. Frontis Portrait. First Edition, First Printing; maroon cloth; rubbing at spine/tips, Top edge gilt; (16), 303 pages, frontis, folding map, illustrations. Born in Scotland, Smith emigrated to Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1775, served… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley & T. Cadell, 1778. 5th . Paperback. Very Good. 12 vo 1/2 Pound. 111pp, hand-tied paper wraps sans half-title page. The fifth edition, adding, for the first time, pages 103-111 consisting of the 1778 Franklin letter. All editions, plus one in Dublin, were printed in 1778. Sabin quotes contemporary reviewers: Pulteney "appears to have… Read more about this item

NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1880. 1st . Paperback. Very Good. 4 Vo; .5 Pounds. Engraving. includes American Revolution; Rare; J. Watts De Peysrer (The Affair at King's Mountain); John Austen Stevens (The Southern Campaign, 1780 Gates at Camden0; William J. Cumming (French Hill and the Traditin of the French in Northern Westchester, Massachusetts); John Austin Stevensw (The… Read more about this item

Dublin, Ireland: Printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1794. 1st . Leatherbound. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. First Edition, 1st Printing; full brown leather; rear boards of volume 1 are detached; some wear at corner tips; ownr's names and plate; Stedman's History is generally considered the best contemporary account of… Read more about this item

NY: Longmans, Green & Co., 1912. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 19 b & w Illustrations. First Edition, First Printing; red cloth w/shelf rubbing, ownr's plate & lite tanning of epprs; 311 clean, unmarked pages; in mylar protective wraps. Sharpe crossed the Atlantic during the summer of 1753 to take over the governership of Maryland under… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 Vo; 2 Pounds. First Edition, First Printing; dark green cloth w/gilt lettering; owner's name; 211 clean, unmarked pages; in mylar protective wraps

London: J. Almon, 1775. 3rd . 3/4 Leather. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo. brown calf w/green boards, moderate wear at spine/tips, some rubbing; lite and scattered froxing; 257pages+ index; an annual publication printed in London...Contains many official reports and letters about Colonial matters, and the Revolutionary War, and a fold-out map of Boston, drawn in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: Jones, Hoff, & Derrick, 1793. 1st . Leatherbound. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12 vo; 1/2 Pound. full brown leather with moderate wear at extremities; front flylaf and half title page missing, 226 pages;

Baltimore, MD: N. Hickman, 1839. 1st . Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo; 1.5 Pouinds. First Edition, Thus; "with additions adapting it more particularly to the use of schools"...spine has been refaced with green buckram, boards are marbled; some wear at tips, 372 pages + questions section; an old light dampstain on rear end papers; owner's name...in… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Charles Fox, 1847. Early Printing . Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/No Jacket. 12 vo; 1/2 Pound. Elegant Engravings From Original Designs. brown c w/gilt decs/lettering; lite wear at spine/tips; in mylar protective wraps; Originally apprenticed to a barber, Fox became a soldier in the militia (as a substitute for his employer), was discharged, and later signed aboard… Read more about this item