[Rarebooks] fs: Frederick William von Steuben, 1/600 copies, 1913
Back Creek Books
rock at backcreekbooks.com
Mon Mar 9 23:33:19 EDT 2009
Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9204 ) Doyle, Joseph B. FREDERICK WILLIAM VON STEUBEN AND THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, AIDE TO WASHINGTON AND INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE ARMY. WITH
ACCOUNT OF POSTHUMOUS HONORS AT VARIOUS PLACES.
Steubenville: H. C. Cook Co., 1913. Limited edition, Original cloth, Octavo,
xx, 399 pages, black & white plates, maps. Fine, No dust jacket.
Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf Gerhard August von Steuben was the Prussian
officer who drilled General Washington's motley mob of farmers and
shopkeepers into the Continental Army that ultimately won independence from
Great Britain. HOWES #D456. Numerous tissue-guarded plates of photographs,
maps, and other illustrations. An appendix contains information on various
commemorations in Jefferson County, Ohio, including that of "Morgan's Raid"
during the Civil War. This is copy #552 of an edition limited to 600, bound
in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Front
endpaper has a few small holes at top of gutter, lower board shows some
slight rippling along fore edge, a few shallow edge wrinkles to cloth at top
of spine. Crisp and well preserved over all....... $125.00
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