Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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BUTLER, Edward Mann (1784?1855). A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Louisville: for the author by Wilcox, Dickerman & Co., 1834. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary tree calf, gilt titling within gilt filleted compartments (extremities gently rubbed, upper joint tender with some separation, title and frontispiece foxed). FIRST EDITION, ?disputes many of Marshall?s findings; contains the Journal of Col. George Croghan, one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country, previously appearing in magazine form? (Howes B?1059).