Remarks on the Travels of the Marquis de Chastellux, in North America.
London: G. and T. Wilkie, 1787. 8vo (212 x 130 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition : foxing; minor wear, recased. a very rare response to chastellux, correcting his account of the american revolution. Simcoe commanded a Loyalist corps during the American Revolution and is best known for his 1787 Journal of the Operations of the Queen’s Rangers . This rare pamphlet, issued the same year, is a response to statements made relative to military engagements and criticism the British Army made by the Marquis de Chastellux in his 1786 Voyages … dans l’Amerique septentrionale . Among the more controversal statements is a defense of Benedict Arnold’s treason. A rare tract, with no copies appearing in the auction records for the last twenty years. Howes S462; Sabin 81137; TPL 563.
Remarks on the Travels of the Marquis de Chastellux, in North America.
London: G. and T. Wilkie, 1787. 8vo (212 x 130 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition : foxing; minor wear, recased. a very rare response to chastellux, correcting his account of the american revolution. Simcoe commanded a Loyalist corps during the American Revolution and is best known for his 1787 Journal of the Operations of the Queen’s Rangers . This rare pamphlet, issued the same year, is a response to statements made relative to military engagements and criticism the British Army made by the Marquis de Chastellux in his 1786 Voyages … dans l’Amerique septentrionale . Among the more controversal statements is a defense of Benedict Arnold’s treason. A rare tract, with no copies appearing in the auction records for the last twenty years. Howes S462; Sabin 81137; TPL 563.
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