Treasures Revealed From the Paul Mellon Library of Americana

In his bequest to the Virginia Historical Society, collector Paul Mellon provided a stunningly rare collection of items from American & Virginia history. Among the treasures are a 1603 order from James I "Banishing Rogues to the New Found Lands;" a 1755 map of Virginia by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson; a 1772 petition from the Virginia House of Burgesses to King George III regarding abolition of the Atlantic slave trade; the only known copy of a broadside announcing the victory at Yorktown in 1781; William Birch's rare folio, Country Seats of the United States (1808), one of the first books published in America, Winslow Homer's Civil War Campaign Sketches printed in 1865; & much, much more.Virginia Historical Society Staff is the author of 'Treasures Revealed From the Paul Mellon Library of Americana', published 2001 under ISBN 9781574271225 and ISBN 1574271229.