Ithiel Town, A Detail of some particular services performed - Lot 268

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Ithiel Town, A Detail of some particular services performed - Lot 268
Ithiel Town, A Detail of some particular services performed in America, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779. Compiled from journals and original papers, supposed to be chiefly taken from the Journal kept on board of the ship rainbow, commended by Sir George Collier, While onthe American Station during that period : giving a minute account of many important attacks on towns and places, expeditions sent up rivers, skirmishes, negotiations, etc., some of which are nowhere else correctly represented, and many others not as minutely described in the histories of that period. Printed for Ithiel Town from a manuscript obtained by him, while in London, in the summer of 1830. New York, Ithiel Town, 1835. In-8 of IX-117 pp., blue percaline of the period. First edition. Compilation relating to the American War of Independence whose manuscript was found in London in 1830: "This Detail had already appeared in The Naval Chronicle twenty years before. The greater part of the edition was consumed by fire" (Sabin). Sabin I, 19775. Freckles on the guards.
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