Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(REVOLUTION.) Fanning, Nathaniel. Fanning's Narrative Being the Memoirs of Nathaniel Fanning an Officer of the Revolutionary Navy. Edited by John S. Barnes. 8vo, publisher's 1/2 vellum, minor soiling; front hinge starting; bookplate on the front pastedown; uncut. one of 300 numbered copies.<> New York, 1912

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The scarce first edition, published in 1806, is considered the earliest reliable description of John Paul Jones's naval actions. Howes F29.<