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Up for sale or best offer is a very rare copy of a 19th century pressed board with cloth spine strip of a complete copy of Reminiscences of the French War; containing Rogers' Expeditions with the New England Rangers under his command, as published in London in 1765; with notes and illustrations to which is added an account of the Life and Military Services of Maj. Gen. John Stark' with notices and anecdotes of other officers distinguished in the French & Revolutionary Wars by Robert Rogers and John Stark, 275 printed pages. Measures 4.75" x 8". Published by Luther Roby in 1831 Concord, New Hampshire. Contains the usually removed very rare frontispiece of John Stark.
Howes Usiana 419
Robert Rogers' Journals ends at page 168.
John Stark's Memoirs 169-275.
Original editions of Rogers' Journals (1765/1768) go for 10K+. The affordable American edition. A collectible in its own right.
First American edition of Rogers' Journals', with additions. One of the most valuable and fundamental works on the French and Indian War, tracing the campaigns and exploits of American frontier soldier, Robert Rogers. Rogers raised and commanded a force of militia known as Roger’s Rangers, which acquired a formidable reputation for courage, daring and endurance in the campaigns around Lake George. The Journals are written in a clear and forceful manner and reproduce many of Rogers’ reports to his commanding officer as well as the orders he received. They begin with his scouting expedition to Crown Point, Sept. 24, 1755, and continue to Feb. 14, 1761 and his arrival in New York from Fort Pitt on the Ohio, including his mission under the orders of Sir Jeffrey Amherst to take possession of Detroit and several other French fur-trade posts on the Great Lakes and in the Ohio valley. Rogers also took part in Wolfe’s expedition against Quebec, was responsible for the destruction of the Abenaki village of Saint-François-de-Sales deep in Canadian territory in 1759, and was present at the capitulation of Montreal in 1760. Rogers later fought against Pontiac in the uprising of 1763, and during the American Revolutionary War, raised the Loyalist regiment known as the Queen’s Rangers, which, after his return to England in 1776, was commanded by John Graves Simcoe.
CONDITION: This is a complete edition. Interior is tight/clean. Mostly light foxing to pages. Untrimmed pages. Pressed boards have obvious soiling for being 189 years old. Previous 18th century owner's name in pencil on front fly leaf and in ink on front endpaper of Henry Walbridge. No interior markings. Clean antiquarian books like this, in this state/condition are clearly drying up. From my research only one other copy available in online book commerce. Make the opportunity happen!
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