1855 · Richmond
by Robert Beverley | Charles Campbell (Introduction)
Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1855. First American Edition. Very Good binding. 264pp. An uncommon edition of one of Robert Beverley's important contemporary history of Virginia first published in London in 1705, this edition -- the First American -- taken from the Second Revised Edition, London, 1722. "After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes and of the life of it's early settlers" [Howes B-410]. With a handsome engraved frontispiece of the arms of the Colony of Virginia, and 14 additional engravings after Theodor de Bry's engravings for the first part of Hariot's important work on Virginia. ~~This copy rebound by J. P. Bell in Lynchburg; in half calf over cloth. Ownership signature of H. F. Hutcheson of Boydton, Virginia. Light pencil marks throughout. (Sabin 5114; Howes B410). Very Good binding.
(Inventory #: 291344)