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AMERICANREVOLUTION

First edition. The North Carolina Booklet Vol. II, No. 5, September 10, 1902. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. Focuses on the three desparate attempts to take North Carolina (1775-76, 1779-80, 1781).
$ 75.00

11. Clos, Jean Henri. THE GLORY OF YORKTOWN: YORKTOWN, ANCIENT AND VENERABLE, BECAME HEROIC AND GLORIOUS IN 1781...
Yorktown: Yorktown Historical Society, 1924. iv,51,v pp.

Title continues: WHEN IT WITNESSED THE CROWNING VICTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WHICH ACHIEVED AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE & ASSURED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. YORKTOWN - PAST AND PRESENT. First edition. Original paper covered boards with cloth spine and paper label on cover. A very good to near fine copy. Illustrated with 12 drawings and 3 maps. Maps on endpapers as well. An excellent commemorative history of the victory at Yorktown. HAYNES 3611.
$ 45.00

12. Limited to 50 copies Deane, Charles. GENERAL WASHINGTON'S HEAD-QUARTERS IN CAMBRIDGE.
Boston: John Wilson and Son, 1873. 9 pp.

First separate edition. One of only 50 copies reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Original printed wrappers, some chipping about edges, else a very good copy.
$ 45.00

13. Gray, Arthur Powell. WASHINGTON'S BURGESS ROUTE.
Richmond, Va.: Virginia Historical Society, [1928]. 17 pp., plates, illus., fldg. map showing Route.

First edition, thus. Offprint of a work first appearing in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume XLVI, No. 4, October, 1938. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. Study of the route George Washington took between Fredericksburg and Williamsburg, Virginia. HAYNES 7 276.
$ 35.00

R 14. Hill, Daniel Harvey. GREENE'S RETREAT.
Raleigh: E. M. Uzzell & Co., 1904. 26 pp.

The North Carolina Booklet Vol. I, No. 7, November, 1901. Second edition, September, 1904. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. "The retreat of Gen. Greene and the pursuit of Lord Cornwallis are worthy to be placed among the most remarkable events of the American war." - Botta. The author was the son of the noted North Carolina Confederate general, D. H. Hill.
$ 75.00

15. Percy, Alfred. VIRGINIA'S UNSUNG VICTORY IN THE REVOLUTION.
Madison Heights, Va.: Percy Press, [1964]. 50 pp., color illus.

First edition. Original stiff printed wrappers, sewn as issued. A near fine with publisher's prospectus laid in. This work presents the Tory insurrection of Central and Southwest Virginia in the summer of 1780. Col. Charles Lynch and others nabbed the leaders and hung them. The author takes time to trace the true origin of the Lynch Law in the newly formed United States. HAYNES 13932.
$ 75.00

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