"I've gone in for colonial history, particularly, and some of these things are pretty rare." The shelves rose to the ceiling and Bassett produced a ladder that he might hand down a few of the more interesting volumes for Dan's closer inspection.
"Here's Wainwright's 'Brief Description of the Ohio River, With some Account of the Savages Living Thereon'-- published in London in 1732, and there are only three copies in existence.

This is Atterbury's 'Chronicle of the Chesapeake Settlements'-- the best thing I have.

The author was an English sailor who joined the colonists in the Revolution and published a little memoir of his adventures in America.

The only other copy of that known to exist is in the British Museum.

I fished mine out of a pile of junk in Baltimore about ten years ago.