Life and Services of Gen. Anthony Wayne: Founded on Documentary and Other Evidence, Furnished by his son, Col. Isaac Wayne [bound with] The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion
by Moore, H.N
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Philadelphia, Pa: John B. Perry, 1845. Hard Cover. Good. The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion with an Appendix; Containing: Biographical Notices of Greene, Morgan, Pickens, Sumpter, Washington, Lee, Davie, and Other Distinguished Officers of the Southern Campaign, durning the American Revolution. 210 p. (frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of illustration included in pagination); 210, 14 p. (6 leaves of illustration included in pagination); 16 cm. Contemporary red leather with gilt-stamped spine decoration and title: Lives of Wayne and Marion. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. 14-page publisher's catalog follows text. Former owner Samuel Moore's name on front and back endpapers. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Norris Stanley Barratt with Barratt's Chapel 1780 below the motto "Nosce Te ipsum," and two smaller emblems below (including the motto "Deus meumque jus"), signed: McIntire, Phila. Front free endpaper inscribed: For Anthony Wayne Ridgway from Norris S. Barratt, May 11th, 1924. Norris Stanley Barrat was a Philadelphia judge and author of Outline of the History of Old St. Paul's Church. In Good Condition: edges are rubbed; small loss of leather at head of spine; top 2 cm. of frontispiece portrait of Wayne lacking; soiling and foxing throughout, heavy at times.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- Title
- Life and Services of Gen. Anthony Wayne: Founded on Documentary and Other Evidence, Furnished by his son, Col. Isaac Wayne [bound with] The Life and Times of Gen. Francis Marion
- Author
- Moore, H.N
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John B. Perry
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa
- Date Published
- 1845
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; American History; Militaria;
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