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Title
An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: containing the most remarkable occurrences of that period, particularly the two sieges of Quebec, &c. &c., the orders of the admirals and general officers, descriptions of the countries where the author has served, with their forts and garrisons, their climates, soil, produce, and a regular diary of the weather : as also several manifestos, a mandate of the late bishop of Canada, the French orders and disposition for the defence of the colony, &c. &c. &c. By Captain John Knox. Dedicated to Lieutenant-General Sir Jeffrey Amherst.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1861Q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8w32rg86v
Language
English
Date Created
1769
Format
Book
Extent
2 vol.(xi, [7], 405, [2] p.; [2], 465, [2] p.) ports., maps ; 4⁰.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper 'Curkis' copy, purchased in 1874'
Princeton copy 1 Lucius Lee Hubbard (his sale American Art Auctions / Anderson Galleries, 3 April 1935, lot 168).
Princeton copy 1 John R. Whiteley, Jr., Ticonderoga, N. Y. -- bill of sale, 1935.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC T92827
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With a list of subscribers in vol. 1.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary full calf.

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File Count
2

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Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6d3dc529-fe17-4956-9840-7a579a811aa1/manifest