Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WITH MANUSCRIPT ANNOTATIONS (REVOLUTION.) A List of the General and Field Officers . . . For the Year 1777. [2], 262 pages. 8vo, contemporary boards, lacks the backstrip, worn and stained; minor staining internally, preliminaries and title detached; with contemporary dated notations identifying officers wounded or killed in action [see note below]. London: for J. Millan, 1777

Additional Details

Many of those identified as having been killed or wounded are dated October 1777, suggesting that the losses occurred at the 7 October 1777 Battle of Saratoga, the first significant American victory of the war.