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(BUNKER HILL)
Sammelband of five nineteenth-century pamphlets regarding Bunker Hill.
All first editions apart from the third item, which is a second. Contents of the volume as follows; 1/ SWETT, S. Who Was the Commander at Bunker Hill? Boston: Printed by John Wilson, 1850. 39 pages. Edges trimmed. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page "With the kind reg. / S. Swett." Stamp on title page reads "Mercantile Library New York," browned and a little brittle. 2/ PARKER, Francis J. Colonel William Prescott, the Commander in the Battle of Bunker's Hill. Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1875. 21 pages. Original wrappers present. Very clean. 3/ WHEILDON, William. New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, Its Purpose, Conduct, and Result. Second Edition. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875. Original wrappers present. 58 pages. Folding engraved map. Very clean. 4/ ELLIS, George E.. An Oration Delivered at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 17th of June 1841, in Commemoration of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston: William Crosby and Co., 1841. Original front wrapper present. 72 pages. Soiling to front cover. Foxing to first and last few pages. 5/ ELLIS, George E. History of the Battle of Bunker's [Breed's] Hill, on June 17, 1775, from Authentic Sources in Print and Manuscript. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, and Company, 1875. Original wrappers present. 69 pages. Engraved map frontispiece. Covers soiled. Map with a few splits at the fore-edge, text lightly toned. A nicely presented collection of uncommon pamphlets.
Octavo (209 × 131 mm). Recent dark green morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt rules. 2 maps, one of them folding. Very good, more detailed condition noted in the list below.
