statement attempted rescue general lafayette (4 resultados)

Wraps. Condición: Fair. Disbound wraps. 49 pages. First two pages detached. Signed, inscribed top of the title page by the author 1881. No printer or location identified. Possibly Charleston. Interior contents clean.

LeatherBound. Condición: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 54. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1881 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 54.

Hardcover. First Edition. 6 x 9.5in. 49pp. Publisher's stapled printed wraps. NEAR FINE in Near Fine custom crushed morocco clamshell slipcase. The pamphlet itself shows a few small nicks along the extremities, a presentation from a former owner of the period at the front cover, a hint of darkening, otherwise the pamphlet has been astonishingly well preserved by the custom slipcase. As pictured.

[HUGER, Elizabeth Pinckney]. Statement of the Attempted Rescue of General Lafayette from "Olmutz". [Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans and Cogswell, c. 1881]. 1st ed. 49 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Light chipping to spine, else a very good copy. Col. Francis Kinloch Huger, a Charleston soldier and physician and an admirer of Lafayette, attempted to rescue Lafayette in 1795 from the Austrian fortress at Olmutz and was himself imprisoned for eight months for his daring.