Jefferson, Thomas

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Description

Notes on the State of Virginia. With an Appendix. New York: Printed by M.L. & W.A. Davis for Furman & Loudon, 1801
contemporary tree calf

8vo (213 x 127 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved folding map of Virginia, folding table of Indian tribes; offsetting to map, long diagonal repaired tear to upper right corner, small repairs at folds, dampstain to lower right corner of frontispiece and first 120 pp, text browned with some scattered foxing, heavier to first and last few leaves. Contemporary tree calf; re-backed, edges slightly worn. Quarter morocco case.

Provenance

Step Barclay (inscription); G. Church (inscription dated 1845); R.W. Osborn (crossed out inscription)

Literature

Howes J78; Sabin 35901

Catalogue Note

Third American edition. The only full-length book to be published by Jefferson in his lifetime.