Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton
Item #63388
[BAYARD, Samuel J.]. A Sketch of the Life of Com. Robert F. Stockton; with an Appendix Comprising His Correspondence with the Navy Department Respecting His Conquest of California; and Extracts from the Defence of Col. J. C. Fremont, in Relation to the Same Subject; Together with His Speeches in the Senate of the United States, and His Political Letters. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. 1st ed. 210;131pp. Orig. blindstamped gilt-pictorial cloth. cloth lightly speckled, light wear to head of spine and corners, light scattered foxing, lacks frontis. portrait, else very good. Stockton was a US Naval Commodore who served under Fremont during the Mexican War. "Of particular interest in this work is the account of Commodore Stockton's overland journey on his return to the States after the conquest of California"--Wagner-Camp 271b. HOWES B-259.
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