Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

33 c   (AMERICAN REVOLUTION—HISTORY.) Stedman, Charles. The History, Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. 15 maps. xv, 399; xv, 449, [13] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, later 1 / 2 morocco, moderate wear and staining to boards; lacking both front free endpapers and half-titles, top 2 inches torn from first title page, moderate foxing, offsetting to maps; edges tinted red; modern bookplates on front pastedowns. London, 1794 [2,500/3,500] Stedman was a Pennsylvania-born graduate of the College of William & Mary. A loyalist during the Revolution, he served in the British army as a commissary and as a commander of a German- American rifle regiment. He went to England after the war, where he wrote this history. “Generally considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from the British side”—Sabin 91057. Howes S914 (“b”); Larned, Literature of American History 1507 (“reflects opinions of British officers, sometimes very candid”).