Publisher's Synopsis
Title: Washington's papers: an edition of these papers is preparing for publication under the following title: the works of George Washington, with notes and historical illustrations, by Jared Sparks: the character and value of these papers, and the plan proposed for publishing them, may be understood from the following letters to the Hon. Joseph Story.
Author: Jared Sparks
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP01436100
CollectionID: CTRG94-B533
PublicationDate: 18270101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Caption title. Imprint from Library of Congress Catalog and Sabin. Letters dated May, 1827, and Letter II signed by Jared Sparks. A prospectus for Sparks' publication of Washington's writings, published originally in the National Intelligencer, May 19 and 22, 1827, and afterwards in a pamphlet entitled "An account of the manuscript papers of George Washington, which were left by him at Mount Vernon with a plan for their publication, Boston, 1827." (Cf. Herbert B. Adams, The life and writings of Jared Sparks ... Boston and New York, 1893, v.2, p. 236)
Collation: 24 p.; 22cm
