Sought-after book set: Memoirs of the American Revolution; so far as it relates to the States of North and South-Carolina, and Georgia, Vols. I and II, by William Moultrie. First edition. NY: printed for the author by David Longworth, 1802. Hardcovers bound in three-quarter brown morocco with green marbled boards, 5 x 7.75, 952 pages. In fine condition, with edgewear and rubbing to boards, uniform toning to textblock, and the bookplate of Joel Davis Madden, Jr., affixed to front pastedown of each volume.
William Moultrie (1730-1805) was an American planter and politician who became a general in the American Revolutionary War. As colonel leading the state militia in 1776, he prevented the British from taking Charleston, and Fort Moultrie was named in his honor. A significant two-volume set of Moultrie's memoirs.
Joel Davis Madden, Jr., left Princeton University in 1905 and moved west to make his fortune in the railroad industry. He went on to become an executive with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and died suddenly in 1928 at the age of 41. His book collection, offered by his granddaughter, has not been publicly offered or privately sold in a century.
