GORDON, Rev. William.- The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America: including an account of the late war; and the thirteen colonies, from their origin to that period.- London: Printed for the Author, 1788.- 4 vols.: IX mapas desdobr.; 21 cm.- E. Original edition published one year before the American edition, of the first history of the American Revolution, written by an American. William Gordon (1728-1807), was born in the United Kingdom, in Hitchin (Hertfordshire); he soon developed sympathies for the independence ideas of the North American colonies, reason why in 1770 he decided to settle definitively in America. He made valuable contributions to its History, namely George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In the words of Joseph Sabin, Gordon is rightly recognized as one of the most impartial and authoritative of the numerous historians of the American Revolution (vol. VII, p. 346/347). The collation of the four volumes is as follows: Vol. I: [24], 504 p.: 1 unfolded map; vol. II: [8], 584 p.: 4 unfolded maps; vol. III: [8], 499, [1 br.] p.: 2 unfolded maps; vol. IV: [8], 445, [1 br.] p.: 2 unfolded maps. Very clean copy with good margins, preserving all nine maps well folded and fresh, namely: I - The United States of America.; II - Boston, with its environs.; III - New York Island, & parts adjacent; IV - The Jerseys, &c. &w.; V - New Hampshire, Vermont, &c.; VI - The Carolina’s, with part of Georgia.; VII - Charlestown & Fort Moultrie.; VIII - The part of Virginia which was the seat of action. IX - York Town. The first volume does not include the “List of subscribers” (7 p.), which some copies have after the preface (after the preliminary A4 sheet). Good contemporary bindings, full calf bindings painted with mottled patine and smooth neo-classical spines, good decorated, with labels in different colours, conserving the original marbled paper endpapers. Sabin, 28011. Sowerby, 487.