Author: VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Title: Treasures revealed from the Paul Mellon Library of Americana / introduction by Robert F. Strohm
Description: Charlottesville. Va. : Howell Press For The Virginia Historical Society 2001. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 232 pages; Description: xiii. 232 p. : ill. (some col.). col. maps ; 27 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Virginia Historical Society. September 20. 2001-January 20. 2002. Includes index. Subjects: Mellon. Paul --Library --Americana --Virginia --History --Sources --Exhibitions. Summary: In his bequest to the Virginia Historical Society. collector Paul Mellon provided a stunningly rare collection of items from American and Virginia history. Among the treasures are a 1603 order from James I 'Banishing Rogues to the New Found Lands; ' a 1755 map of Virginia by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson; a 1772 petition from the Virginia House of Burgesses to King George III regarding abolition of the Atlantic slave trade; the only known copy of a broadside announcing the victory at Yorktown in 1781; William Birch's rare folio. 'Country Seats of the United States' (1808) . one of the first books published in America. Winslow Homer's Civil War 'Campaign Sketches' printed in 1865; and much. much more.ISBN: 1574271229. Weight in Kg appr.:

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