JOURNALS OF MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL EXCURSIONS HE MADE UNDER THE GENERALS WHO COMMANDED UPON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, DURING THE LATE WAR

Rogers, Robert

Published by printed for the author, and sold by J. Millan, Bookseller, near Whitehall, London, 1765

About this Item

First edition. 8vo. viii, 236, (4, publisher's note and ads) pp. With the half-title. The Thomas W. Streeter copy with his small label on the verso of the front wrapper. Howes R-419: "In these military journals Rogers describes visits to the shores of Lakes Erie and Huron, and a trip from Detroit to the Delaware villages on the Muskingum and to Pittsburgh." Sabin 72725. Vail 563, Field 1315. Thomson 996. Graff 3555. Streeter sale 1029 (this copy, purchased from Goodspeed in 1927): "Published when Rogers was only 34 years old, this is one of the basic sources for the French and Indian War. It begins on September 24, 1755, with an account of a scouting expedition on Lake George and ends on February 14, 1761 when Rogers arrived in New York after having received the surrender of the French at Detroit late in 1760. In the meantime he had been with Amherst at Crown Point in 1757, with Abercrombie at Ticonderoga in 1758, and had been a participant in the campaign around Montreal in 1760. A second volume of the Journal was proposed [in one of the two ad leaves at the rear], but never issued." We have been unable to trace another copy in trade (ABPC and RareBookHub) in the original wrappers. Old oil staining to upper portion of rear wrapper, with some staining to endpapers and the upper margin of text, just touching the text of the last six pages, but a fresh untrimmed copy in the original wrappers, rarely encountered in this state. Original drab wrappers (spine perished), untrimmed. Housed in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase with cloth chemise, gilt rules and title on spine. (9794).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: JOURNALS OF MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL EXCURSIONS HE MADE UNDER THE GENERALS WHO COMMANDED UPON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, DURING THE LATE WAR
• Publisher: printed for the author, and sold by J. Millan, Bookseller, near Whitehall, London
• Publication Date: 1765
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana