[Rarebooks] FS: Latour's MEMOIR OF THE WAR IN WEST FLORIDA

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Latour, A. Lacarriere [Arsene]. HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE WAR IN WEST 
FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA IN 1814-15. WITH AN ATLAS....WRITTEN ORIGINALLY 
IN FRENCH, AND TRANSLATED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY H. P. NUGENT. 
Philadelphia: John Conrad and Co., 1816. xx, 264, cxc pp. 8vo. Full 
contemporary tree calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label 
(hardback). Sabin 39214; Howes L124; Streeter II:1075; Shaw & 
Shoemaker 38034/5. First edition.

"Chief authority, well documented on these operations. Portrait 
evidently not issued in all copies," (Howes). This copy without the 
portrait and lacking the atlas. Latour (1778-1837) was General 
Jackson's chief engineer and provides here the best and most accurate 
picture of the New Orleans campaign. Extremities worn, headband and 
label chipped else very good with the bookplate of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of 
Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, 
scattered foxing and toning, title leaf opened a bit roughly at the 
top corner and following two leaves creased at the corners, binding 
solid.  [31441] $825.00  

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