One of 100 numbered Large Paper copies
Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier.
Pittsburgh: J.R.Weldin & Co, 1892.
Price:
$450.00
First edition, copy No. 25 of 100 on large paper (total edition 300 copies). 312 pp., with half-title. 3 plates (including frontispiece portrait) & 3 maps & plans (1 double-page). 1 vols. 4to. Uncut in original green cloth, with printed paper spine label. Cloth a little darkened and spotted, tiny paper flaw in blank margin of one leaf, else internally fine. Bookplate of William Latham Abbott (c.1853-1930; chairman of Carnegie Steel Company). Howes D-70; TPL 360.
Item #374774
Including the journal of Captain Celoron, printed from the original in the Paris public library, describing Celoron's trip in June-Nov. of 17^9 down the Ohio River, proclaiming possession by France, the letters of Generals Grant, Forbes, and Bouquet from the Campaign of 1758, from the Bouquet papers in the British Museum, the journal, letters and orderly book of Captain S.Ecuyer who commanded Fort Pitt in 1763, also from the Bouquet papers in the British Museum, a sketch of the life of General O'Hara, letters from officers of the Continental Army, from 1776-1799, and an account of the erection and organization of the Allegheny County, by William M.Darlington, the editor's husband.
Item #374774
Including the journal of Captain Celoron, printed from the original in the Paris public library, describing Celoron's trip in June-Nov. of 17^9 down the Ohio River, proclaiming possession by France, the letters of Generals Grant, Forbes, and Bouquet from the Campaign of 1758, from the Bouquet papers in the British Museum, the journal, letters and orderly book of Captain S.Ecuyer who commanded Fort Pitt in 1763, also from the Bouquet papers in the British Museum, a sketch of the life of General O'Hara, letters from officers of the Continental Army, from 1776-1799, and an account of the erection and organization of the Allegheny County, by William M.Darlington, the editor's husband.
