Life of Captain Michael Cresap
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Author: Jacob, John J.
Title: A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Captain Michael Cresap
Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher:Jno F. Uhlhorn
Date Published: 1866
Description:
Author: Jacob, John J.
Title: A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Captain Michael Cresap
Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher:Jno F. Uhlhorn
Date Published: 1866
Description:
158, 23pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. (4to) 24.8x19.4 cm (9¾x7¾"), later half leather over red cloth, gilt title on spine; floral patterned endpapers with gilt, title page printed in red and black. Reprint from the Cumberland Edition of 1826.
This is one of the copies containing the Lieutenant Boyer's A Journal of Wayne's Campaign...Against the Northwestern Indians, which has a separate titlepage, but continuous signatures. Written in 1826 by a contemporary of Cresap against aspersions published in Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia regarding Dunmore's War.
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Large bookplate on front pastedown; dampstain in bottom corner on last few pages; very good.
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Life of Captain Michael Cresap
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