SIMCOE, John Graves.

Simcoe's Military Journal. A History of the Operations

Item #78795

SIMCOE, John Graves. Simcoe's Military Journal. A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, called the Queen's Rangers, Commanded by Lieut. Col. J.G. Simcoe, During the War of American Revolution. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844. 1st American ed. xvii, [4], 14-328 pp. 10 folding lithographed battle plans. In orig. boards, rebacked in cloth. retaining orig spine label. HOWES S-461. Clark I, 311. Lande 749. Reese, The Revolutionary Hundred, 84 (for the English edition). First American, and first published edition, after a small edition printed in Exeter, England, in 1787 for private circulation. With the ownership signature of THE NOTED Southern author Thomas Nelson Page in pencil at the head of the title page. Describes the actions of the Queen's Rangers in and around Philadelphia in 1777 and 1778, and then around New York in Long Island, Westchester County, and New Jersey, until the end of 1780.

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