Original quarter calf over yellow paper covered boards
1830 · Boston
by [Sedgwick, Charles, Mrs., Catharine Maria; Robertson, William]
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1830. First edition. Original quarter calf over yellow paper covered boards. Very good copies, worn at spine ends, scuffed boards, foxing throughout.. 237 pp.; 222 pp. Illus. with 2 engravings by Alonzo Hartwell. 16mo. "The following stories, claiming to be little else than an abridgment of Robertson, are the first of a series designed to embrace the most important events in the history of America, from its first discovery to the close of the Revolution. It is the object of the writer ... to render history attractive by divesting it of all formality, and thus entice the youthful mind from the regions of fiction and romance, into a wide field of knowledge, from which it has hitherto been too willingly excluded." (Preface). Lacking the final volume which covers Peru. Uncommon. Of 10 locations listed in OCLC only six have complete copies. Provenance: Ben Grauer, notation from the sale of his library (Swann, 9/27/56 lot 316; list only the two volumes). Sabin 78817. Amer. Imprints; 3436. Spain & Spanish America II, 616. (Inventory #: 34981)