Lot 122
JOHN MARSHALL. THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. FIRST LONDON EDITION WITH ALL MAPS, PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS BY T. GILLET, 1804-1807 John Marshall.
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States, London: Printed for Richard Phillips by T. Gillet, 1804. First English edition, 8vo, complete in five volumes, with all 12 listed maps. Quarter leather with marbled covers, edges and eps, five raised bands on spine. Vol. 1: [1, blank], frontis of Washington by Stuart, title, Preface [xxiv], Contents [xxv-xxxii], 453, List of Plates, publisher’s ads [455-458], 2 folding maps: Map of the Northern Provinces of the United States and Map of the Southern Provinces of the United States, both printed for R. Phillips, 71 St. Paul’s Church Yard, Russell Junior, sculpt., [1, blank]. Vol. 2: [1, blank], frontis of Mount Vernon by G.I. Parkyns, title, Contents [iii-vii], 541 and Notice:
“It is supposed that the Manuscript of another Volume of this Work will be received from America in the course of the Autumn, and that the entire work will be completed, in Four or Five Volumes, before Christmas./ No. 71, St. Paul’s Church-Yard,/ June 12, 1804./ The BINDER is requested to place the View of Mount Vernon facing the Title./ By Taylor, Black-Horse-Alley; Stower, Charles Street, and Marchant, 3, Greville-Street, Hatton-Garden. [1, blank] Vol. 3: [1, blank], frontis of The City of Washington in 1800, Parkyns, del., Title, Contents [iii-viii], 460. Last page with engraving set below text of
The Elm Tree at Washington, under which Mr. Penn made the first Treaty with the Indians. [1, blank] Vol. 4: [1, blank], (no frontis), title, Contents [iii-vii], 589. [1, blank] Vol. 5: [1, blank], folding map,
Boston and its Environs, published Sept. 18, 1806 by R. Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London. Cooper, sculpt., title, Contents [iii-vii], 667, Pedigree of General Washington [668], List of the Engravings [listing 10 maps in Vol. V], publisher’s ads [3 pages] and 9 folding maps. [1, blank] The 10 maps in Vol. 5 are not bound in the order listed on the Engravings page but all maps are present in the following order, with the numbers in parentheses indicating the number listed on the Engravings page: A Map of Part of Rhode Island (7), Plan of the country from Frogs Point to Cotton River (8), Investment and Attack of York in Virginia (15), The scene of operations of the Northern Army including the Wilderness through which General Arnold marched to attack Quebec (16), A plan of New York Island (9), A map of the country from Raritan River in East Jersey (10), A map of those parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia (11), A plan of the Northern part of New Jersey (12) and The Siege of Charleston (13)
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