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M
c.kenzie’s strictures on Tarleton’s history.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 54, as above, with the reading
Mac Kenzie’s.
MACKENZIE,
Roderick.
Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton’s History “of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America”
. . . In a series of Letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie, late Lieutenant in the 71st Regiment. To which is added, A Detail of the Siege of Ninety Six, and the Re-capture of the
Island of New-Providence.
London: Printed for the author; and sold by
R. Jameson,
R. Faulder,
T. and J. Egerton, and
T. Sewell.
M DCC LXXXVII. [1787.]
E236 .T19
First Edition. 8vo. 99 leaves; the
Re-Capture of New-Providence begins on M
4; errata on a
3 verso.
Original calf, gilt back. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. On page 140 is a long foot-note, with anecdotes illustrative of the disaffection of the inhabitants of South Carolina, beside which is
written in pencil (not by Jefferson):
See Ramsay for the truth. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Listed, without price, on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Roderick Mackenzie, fl. 1787-1794, soldier and hsitorian. This work is dedicated to Francis Lord Rawdon [i.e. Francis Rawdon-Hastings, first
Marquis of Hastings, one of the English officers in the war] from King-street, St. James’s-square [London], November, 1787.
Tarleton’s book is criticized with severity, and Lord Cornwallis defended from his charges. The author of the account of the
Siege of Ninety Six was Lieutenant Hatton.
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Moultrie’s memoirs of the Amer. revolñ.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 58, as above.
MOULTRIE,
William.
Memoirs of the American Revolution, so far as it related to the States of North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Compiled
from the most authentic materials, the author’s personal knowledge of the various events, and including an epistolary correspondence
on public affairs, with civil and military officers, at that period. By William Moultrie, late Governor of the State of South Carolina, and Major General in the Army of the United States during the American War.
Vol. I [II].
New-York: printed by
David Longworth, for the Author,
1802.
E230 .S7M9
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. in fours. Vol. I, 252 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece by C. Tanner; vol. II, 224 leaves; on the last leaf the printer’s announcement that he
will execute all orders for printing, &c. with which he may be honored from the southern states.
Sabin 51142.
De Renne I, page 309.
Georgia State Library,
Books and Pamphlets relating to Georgia, page
84.
Weeks,
A Bibliography of the Historical Literature of North Carolina,
p. 38.
University of South Carolina,
Caroliniana,
page 124.
Presentation copy from the author, in a presentation binding. Tree calf, with the original morocco labels on the back of vol.
I (those on vol. II renewed), the front cover of vol. I with an inlaid calf label lettered in gilt:
Thomas Jefferson / President of the U. S. / from the Author. Title and portrait frontispiece in vol. I backed, a small corner torn away from a leaf in vol. II. Initialled by Jefferson
at sigs. I and T; a few minor corrections occur in pencil and in ink, and some passages marked with red crayon; vol. I, page
198, a stain on the paper has been converted with ink into the head of an Indian. The first volume has the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
The volumes were evidently presented after November 1, 1802, on which date the author wrote that he was sending his grandson
to call on Jefferson: “and to present to you my most respectful com- ”
