In Original Boards
The History of North Carolina.
Williamson, Hugh.
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1812.
Price:
$1,500.00
About the item
First edition. Folding frontispiece map. xix,289;viii,289pp. Half titles. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's paper-backed blue boards, later ink titling on spines. Foxing and toning, some edge tears, map detached. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Howes W494; Shaw & Shoemaker 27566; Sabin 104449WH/10/Photo.
Item #378715
The standard history of North Carolina by a prominent southern physician, particularly valuable for the Revolutionary period. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Hugh Williamson was a physician and polymath who served as one of North Carolina's delegates to the Federal Constitutional Convention. His History was written during his retirement from Congress while living in New York. He notes in his preface that little had been written directly about the history of North Carolina, and that he used as his chief sources public records, letter books, and manuscripts in the possession of the oldest families in the state. Difficult to obtain in original boards.
