Autograph letter signed to Philadelphia bookseller William Bell

by Charles Vancouver

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 p. folded sheet. Written on folded sheet, addressed on verso. Quarto. Bit tanned. Very good. DNB XX, pp.95-96. Item #354241 Vancouver was a noted agriculturist. An American by birth, he spent 1786 to 1793 in England, where he wrote reports on the state of agriculture in various British counties. The DNB speculates that he returned to America around 1800. In this letter Vancouver states that he has sent Bell 200 copies of the HARLIAN TRACTS,

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