The History of America (3 volume set)

William Robertson

 London : Printed for A. Strahan ; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) ; and E. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1796

3 volume set. 1796 printing. 7th ed. 4 engraved, folding maps.  1 folding plate. Bound in contemporary speckled calf.  Gilt ruled.  Minor chipping to spine ends.  Marbled end sheets. With four folding maps of Mexico or New Spain (including California); the Gulf of Mexico, the islands and countries adjacent; South America; the countries on the South Sea, from Panama to Guayquil; and one folding plate. "Most highly regarded secondary source of its time." Howes R358. Divided into 10 books; books 1-8, relating to the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru, were originally published in 1777; books 9-10, containing the history of Virginia and New England, first appeared to 1796. A comprehensive and detailed account of the United States in its formative years through the end of the 18th century.