Laurie Todd's Notes on Virginia: with a Chapter on Puritans, Witches and Friends
New York: Printed for the Author by D. Fanshaw, 1848. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Item #10684
Octavo. 36 pp. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers. Wrappers are a trifle soiled; some abrasion at the spine where it was removed from a modern pamphlet holder; title page with long closed tear to the bottom margin; remnants of a heraldic bookplate on the verso of the title page; light and scattered foxing; contemporary ink marking through a subscript at the bottom of the final page that notes: "To be continued in [indecipherable]" Interestingly, this line is also marked through in the same manner in Harvard's copy which has been digitized; we presume it is Thorburn's correction—whether in his hand or at his direction.
A fairly uncommon pamphlet by the Scotsman who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Laurie (or Lawrie) Todd. This is one of a series of works and is based on Thorburn's observations from extended travel in the Virginia and though brief has interesting observations of African Americans, Native Americans, religion, and natural resources, etc. Fairly uncommon in commerce. Haynes 18401.
Price: $200.00