New York Manuscript Records, War of the Revolution (2 vol set) 1868

Calendar of Historical Manuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution, in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. (2 volume set). Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, 1868. First Edition. [8533] One of 500 sets printed. Two volumes in black cloth, 11 1/2 inches, bindings tight with light stains, wear, horizontal cut in cloth near the bottom of the spine of vol. i. 682, 495 pp. with index. Vol. i. with old stain bottom corner of the last few leaves; offsetting from removed inserts on a few pp., light foxing; vol. ii. clean. Good. Hardcover. This is the first edition of these Revolutionary Records to have been published. The manuscripts had been bound in 1822, but were not printed. Out of the 16 volumes of bound manuscripts everything pertaining to the Revolutionary Period in New York State was extracted and put to print in these two large volumes. The 2 volume set Journal of the New York Provisional Congress (1842) refers often to the manuscripts, and it was felt