THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA
1883 · Boston
by Jones, Charles C.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Two volumes. xiv,[2],556; xiv,[2],540pp. plus nineteen illustrations and maps. Contemporary green buckram, stamped in black, spine gilt. Spine extremities and edges a bit worn, boards lightly scuffed. One plate laid in. Light toning. About very good. First edition of Jones' exhaustive history of Georgia. Many of the present illustrations lithographed by Julius Bien, lithographer of the celebrated "Bien edition" of Audubon's BIRDS OF AMERICA.... "Most scholarly history of the colonial and revolutionary period of this state" - Howes. HOWES J199, "aa." DE RENNE II, p.818. (Inventory #: WRCAM50149A)