[America] Kercheval, Samuel. A History of the Valley of Virginia. Winchester, VA, Samuel H. Davis, 1833. 8vo. xlvi, 486 pp. Modern brown calf over marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Field 822. Sabin 37611. Streeter III, 1336. Howes 102. This is a valuable and scarce early history of Virginia in which Kercheval wrote the first part on the Shenandoah Valley. The chapter on slavery was omitted from 1850 later printing. Kercheval drew largely on a lot of Doderidge's history for the second part. Foxing. Restoration to title page, 1 leaf of preface supplied in facsimile with 1/2 of original page laid in, without the 6-page list of subscribers at rear.

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