The Life of Paul Jones, From Original Documents in the Possession of John Henry Sherburne, Esq Register of the Navy of the United States

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20 x 13 cm. Small octavo. xii 320pp. Half-title. Bound in 1/2 leather spine and dark blue pebbled boards. Gilt top foredge. Marble endpapers. Spine toned to brown, and some scuffing to spine. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Preface begins: "Paul Jones is known as a rebel and a pirate. Five and twenty years have not elapsed since the nurses of Scotland hushed their crying infants by the whispter of his name, and chap-books are even now to be purchased in which he is depicted in all the plenitude of terrific glory, the rival of Blackbeard, and the worthy successor of the Buccaneers. N° de ref. del artículo 64921

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