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Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
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SIMCOE, John Graves (1752-1806). Military Journal.... New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.
8vo. 10 lithographed folding maps. (Some minor spotting.) Modern brown leather.
FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, preceded by a privately-printed edition of 1787, and expanded by the addition of a biography of Simcoe and an appendix of letters, papers, and observations. Simcoe commanded The Queen's Rangers, a Loyalist regiment who served in the New York and Philadelphia campaigns, at Charleston, and with Benedict Arnold in Virginia. Howes S-461; Sabin 81135.
