[Rarebooks] FS: [John Graves Simcoe] Remarks on the Travels of the Marquis de Chastellux

[Duncan McLaren]

Offering:

[John Graves Simcoe] Remarks on the Travels of the Marquis de  
Chastellux, in North America.  1787 1st UK edition

8vo (212 x 130 mm). 80pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style.  
Condition: Very good, 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 80pp. 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. $10,500 USD.

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