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MEMOIRS OF ANDREW SHERBURNE: A PENSIONER OF THE NAVY OF THE REVOLUTION
por Sherburne, Andre
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Utic, 1828. 262pp. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco label. Hinges worn, chipped at head of spine. Minor foxing, two leaves with old tape repairs. Contemporary and modern scribblings on rear free endpaper and pastedown. Tanned and foxed. A good copy, with duplicate stamp of the Huntington Library on rear pastedown. The author, a native of Portsmouth, N.H. served in the Continental navy as a boy and saw considerable action. In 1781 he was taken prisoner and sent to Old Mill Prison, where he became ill before finally being returned to America. He lived in Maine until 1818, when he moved to Ohio. HOWES S391. KAPLAN 5170. HARBECK, p.97. SMITH I, 1351 (another ed).
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- MEMOIRS OF ANDREW SHERBURNE: A PENSIONER OF THE NAVY OF THE REVOLUTION
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- Utic
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- 1828
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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