(FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR) Knox John An Historical Journal of t

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(FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.) Knox, John. An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America. Folding map (3-inch repaired tear, slight edge wear), 2 frontispiece portraits. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, front joints cracked, lacking a spine title-piece, moderate wear; rehinged, front free endpaper coming loose, long closed tear on leaf 2:Gg2, intermittent moderate foxing. With errata leaves. London, 1769

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first edition. A journal kept by an Irish captain in the English army. Of natural history as well as military interest. Includes a 57-word Algonquin dictionary. "Few books, perhaps, have been more often quoted by historians and more seldom seen by readers than Knox's Historical Journal"--Egerton, English Historical Journal 117, page 151. "One of the most accurate and detailed accounts available on the sieges of Louisburg and Quebec"--TPL 323. "Reliable, full and interesting"--Howes K222 ("b"). Lande McGill 486; Sabin 38164.