Washington Irving's Life of George Washington
Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792
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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington
Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792
Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 7 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, George Washington, Roger Sherman (with autograph), James Duane (with autograph), George Clinton, General Putnam, Joseph Reed, Anthony Wayne (2), George Sackville Germain (Viscount Sackville), Simon Fraser, Arthur St. Clair (2), Joseph Brant (Indian name, Thayendanegea), Baron Friedrich Adolph von Riedesel, John Dyke Acland, William Duer, Horatio Gates, James Wilinson, Marquess Lafayette, Lafayette (3), Benjamin Lincoln, Red Jacket (Indian name, Sagoyewatha), Barry St. Leger (2), John Stark (2), John Murray (Earl Dunmore), Count Polaski, Benjamin Franklin (2), Charles Marquis of Cornwallis, and Sir Charles Grey (Earl Grey). Prints: Hudson Highlands - Near Forts Clinton & Montgomery; Bay of New York; A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America; General Burgoyne addressing the Indians at their War Feast, in Canada; View of the Ruins of Ticonderoga Forts on Lake Champlain; Lake George; A View of a Saw Mill & Block House upon Fort Anne Creek, the property of General Steene,...; View of the City and Port, of Philadelphia, on the Delaware, taken from Kensington; Gen. Burgoyne Addressing the Indians; Gezicht van den Waterval van Cohoz; Washington, Lafayette & Greene. Sheltered in a Farm House; A View on Schuylkill, near Philadelphia. Letters: ALS, Arthur St. Clair to Michael Gratz, August 8, 1768; AL(handwritten copy), Friedrich Riedesel to William Phillips, May 14, 1778;ALS, Tadeasz Kosciuszko to Charles Pettit, January 10, 1798; A(aman.)LS, George Clinton to Major Delavan, June 19, 1781; ALS, William Duer to James Greenleaf, December 14, 1794; ALS, Joseph Trumbull to Jared Tracey, January 15, 1778; ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Charles Pettit, October 4, 1778; ALS, Mordecai Gist to Samuel and John Smith, April 10, 1787; ALS, John Armstrong to Smith Thompson, December 9, 1819; ALS, Lafayette to ?, April 22, 1817. Documents: A(aman.)DS, Muster Roll. [Fragment with signatures of John Golver and Levi Lindley]. Maps: The Burgoyne Campaign 1777; A Perspective View of Lake George; The Country between Crown Point and Albany being the Great Pass from the English to the French Settlements in North America; Communication between Albany and Oswego; Battle of Brandywine.
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