Dawson, Henry B. (Henry Barton), 1821-1889 [author]; Chappel, Alonzo [illustrator]
New York: Johnson, Fry, and Company, 1858. Quarto; 2 volumes; G-; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print, raise bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and brown cloth to boards, wear to spine caps and corners, scuffing and surface tears to leather, torn hinges at bottom of vol. 2, blemishes, rubbing to cloth; Text blocks have staining to endpapers, slight tears to endpaper hinges, foxing to endpapers, light amount of foxing throughout especially to plates and adjacent pages, else clean and tight; Both vols. have engraved title pages, frontispieces, and are “illustrated with numerous highly-finished steel engravings, including battle scenes and full-length portraits, from original paintings” (b&w plates); CONTENTS: Vol. I. The War of the Revolution, 1775-1783 (744 pages) — Vol. II. The Indian, French, and Algerine Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, 1790-1847 (746 pages).
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