Battle of Lake Erie with Notices of Commodore Elliot's Conduct in That Engage...
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1. NOTE! Not Marshall ed. True first ed. before Philadelphia ed. Providence: Brown & Cady, 1839. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Francis Y. Carlile, in the clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island. B. Cranston & Co. Printers. xv, 132 pp., 3 plates of fleet diagrams. 5 x 7.5"". Purple cloth w. border + decoration stamped on boards. Compartment lines and bright gilt letters on spine. Bottom spine and corner tips lightly rubbed. Spine top chipped 1/16"". Hinges intact, binding tight. Pages w. minor light spotting to first prefatory pages and occasional top margins. Small light pencil name on front fly. Else clean, bright, tight, vg+. Historical Society of Rhode Island lectures, official British and American accounts of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1812, Elliot's untimely aid attempt during the battle...William Easton Louttit bookplate tipped-in on rear pastedown.
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