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MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY / With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution. With Unpublished Letters and a Memoir of Mrs. Grant by James Grant Wilson. In Two Volumes by Grant, Mrs. Anne - 1901.

by Grant, Mrs. Anne

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MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY / With Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America as They Existed Previous to the Revolution. With Unpublished Letters and a Memoir of Mrs. Grant by James Grant Wilson. In Two Volumes

by Grant, Mrs. Anne

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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901.. 1901.. Very good. LIMITED EDITION OF 350 NUMBERED SETS - Large octavo, three quarters cream vellum & blue paper covered boards titled in gilt on the spines with a device in gilt stamped on the front covers. The top edges are gilt. The boards are very lightly rubbed & the vellum is lightly soiled & foxed. xxxviii & pages [39]-307; and viii & 300 pages, partially unopened. Illustrated with 31 black-and-white plates, including a portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard in each volume. The title pages are lightly foxed & there is a gift inscription on the front endpaper of each volume. A very good, attractive set. <p>Limited edition of 350 numbered sets. This is set number 97.<p>From the library of Civil War veteran Louis Livingston, inscribed to him on Christmas of 1901.
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  • Publisher New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901.
  • Date Published 1901.
  • Keywords NEW YORK STATE; COLONIAL AMERICA; MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY; MRS. ANNE GRANT; ALBANY; SETTLERS; PIONEERS; INDIAN WARS; NATIVE AMERICANS; AMERICAN INDIANS; PHILIP SCHUYLER; SCHUYLER FAMILY; LETTERS; MEMOIR OF MRS. GRANT; JAMES GRANT WILSON; PLATES; LIMIT

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Dodd, Mead and Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In protective mylar cover. (new york, albany, united states, description and travel ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Memoirs of an American Lady, with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they existed previous to the Revolution

by Mrs. (Anne) Grant

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D. Appleton, January 1846. Hardcover. Acceptable. First and end pages heavily foxed; text split at pages 98/99; text in later black cloth rebinding with gilt titles to spine
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New York:Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. &amp; G. Bruce, 1809. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_6966.jpg. New York:Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. &amp; G. Bruce. 1809. 2nd edition. viii+344pp. Hardcover.&nbsp; Bound in full leather with title label to spine strip.&nbsp; Leather is quite worn, chipped&nbsp;and scuffed, with edge points still sharp but worn to boards and spine ends worn and chipped.&nbsp;&nbsp;Internally, end pages heavily worn and age toned with a previous owners name to 1st free endpage but otherwise although paper is age-toned throughout, pages are relatively free of foxing. The binding is tight and boards still firmly attached. *Author lived with the Schuyler Family for a time in upstate New York.&nbsp;
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Memoirs of An American Lady: with Sketches of Manners and Scenes in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution. With a Memoir of Mrs. Grant.

by Grant, Mrs. Anne (MacVicar); James Grant Wilson

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Albany: Joel Munsell, 1876. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Decorative Silk. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First thus. Includes 11-page Memoir of Mrs. Grant by James Grant Wilson. pp. xxii, 377, including index. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of Mrs. Grant and additional in-text illustrations and engraved plates. Wonderful pull-out map of the flats around Albany. Publisher's blue silk binding with black decoration in blind, gilt titles. Brown endpapers, antique ex-library bookplate, hand-numbered and hand-dated in year of publication. Rebacked with original spine laid down, hinges renewed. Foxing primarily around engravings. Tiny library stamps to corners of illustrations, no pocket or external library markings. Scarce in this edition. Very good..
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New York: Printed for Samuel Campbell by D. And G. Bruce, 1809. First New York edition.  12mo.  viii, 344 pages.  This book by Scottish-born Anne MacVicar Grant (1755-1838) includes both her recollections of her childhood (ages 3 through 13) years that she lived with her parents in colonial Claverack and Oswego, New York, and her memoir of Madam Catalina Schuyler with whom she lived in Albany.  Anne's father Duncan MacVicar was an officer in the British army who had been posted to "the colonies" during the years leading up to what was to become the American Revolution.  The family's trip back to Scotland in 1868 was meant to be temporary, but Duncan's pro-British sentiments led him to make it permanent.  Anne's portrayal of New York pre-revolutionary colonial life between 1758 and 1768 was admired by both Sir Walter Scott and Robert Southey.  Originally published in London in 1808, this New York edition was preceded by a 2-volume Boston printing, also published in 1809.  Howes, U.S.iana G303;… Read More
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