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1858 NAVY Admiral John Paul Jones America Revolution Bonhomme Richard RARE

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1858 NAVY Admiral John Paul Jones America Revolution Bonhomme Richard RARE

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1858 NAVY Admiral John Paul Jones America Revolution Bonhomme Richard RARE

The Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones is an important 19th-century book of American naval history. This biography of John Paul Jones is unique in that it comes not only from his letters but also from his journals and memoirs. Jones is considered the father of the American Navy for his great service to the United States during the American Revolution. His most famous sea battle happened off the coast of England in 1779 when Jones, aboard the Bonhomme Richard, defeated Captain Richard Pearson on the Serapis, despite taking heavy damage. It also includes:

Commencement of the Revolution and Jones entering the Navy

Jones Cruise on the British and Scottish Coasts

Correspondence with Lord Selkirk, the King of France, and Thomas Jefferson

Jones Journal of his Campaign in the Liman

Jones view of affairs in Russia and the Character of Prince Potemkin

This 1858 edition is illustrated with over 80 engravings from original drawings by James Hamilton.

Item number: #22643

Price: $499

JONES, John Paul

Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones: compiled from his original journals and correspondence: including an account of his services in the American Revolution and in the war between the Russians and Turks in the Black Sea

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1858.

Details:

Collation: Complete

x, 399, [1]

Heavily illustrated throughout

References: Sabin 36557; Howes J 227

Provenance: Handwritten

Mrs. Katherine Parker Tuck, 1934

Mrs. E. M. Tuck, 1934

Mary Elira Whitehead

John Whitehead

Sarah B. Whitehead

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Brown cloth

Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 12.5cm)

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