The Glory of America: Comprising Memoirs of the Lives and Glorious Exploits of Some of the Distinguished Officers Engaged in the Late War With Great Britain
New York: Ezra Strong, 1834. Leather bound. Bound in brown leather; gilt tooling and lettering on spine; 574 pp, 6 leaves of bw plates. Fair (heavy wear to leather boards, leather on spine torn, expected age toning, foxing spots, possible water staining to bottom corner of many pages. Bookplate of previous owner inside front cover.). Item #184033
"The following are sketches of persons who acted only in the Revolution, or in that and the French war, which resulted in the conquest of Canada, by the British and Provincials, the latter of whom belonged to the colonies, which have since become the 'United States.'"--Page 469-574. Includes memoirs from: Andrew Jackson, Richard Mentor Johnson, Stephen Decatur, David Porter, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Leonard Covington, John Chrystie, William Henry Allen, John Cushing Aylwin, William Burrows, James Lawrence, William Bainbridge, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, Thomas Macdonough, Wm. Carroll, Jacob Brown, John Rogers, James Biddle, Winfield Scott, Lewis Warrington, George Croghan, Henry H. Dearborn, Alexander Macomb, Oliver Hazard Perry, Jacob Jones, Isaac Hull, Joseph Warren, Richard Montgomery, Daniel Morgan, John Barry, John Manly, Baron De Kalb, William Heath, Anthony Wayne, Charles Lee, Nathaniel Green, Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Truxton, Hugh Mercer.
OCLC: 1004798758
Price: $50.00