ID 411432
Lot 25 | On his mission to Fort Le Boeuf
Valeur estimée
$ 80 000 – 120 000
The first English edition of Washington's first published work. It contains the young officer's first-hand narrative of his dangerous winter journey through the Appalachian wilderness to deliver an ultimatum to the commander of the French outpost at Fort Le Boeuf [now Waterford, PA]. Washington demanded France's withdrawal from their Ohio Valley outposts—and not surprisingly, the French commander refused. Jeffreys' edition is a reprint of the unobtainable Williamsburgh edition, issued without map, of which about nine copies survive. Church 999; Graaf 4553; Howes W-134; Sabin 101710.
Octavo (182 x 114mm). Engraved folding map hand-colored in outline, "Map of the Western parts of the Colony of Virginia, as far as the Mississippi" (cut slightly close at gutter). Contemporary calf, covers gilt-ruled (rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey (bookplate) – James Strohn Copley (bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's New York, 15 October 2010).
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