Extracts From the Journal of Marshal Soult, Addressed to a Friend: How Obtained, and By Whom Translated is Not a Subject if Enquiry.

Newburyport: Published by William B. Allen & Co, 1817.

Price: $500.00


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First Edition. [1] - 143. 1 vols. 12mo. Original bright orange printed boards, uncut; some rubbing; else a very fine copy. Wright I 1592; S & S 41208 (2 locs.: DLC; MWA); Not in Howes.

Item #4903

Knapp was a lawyer who practised in Boston and New York; whose chief literary output consisted mostly of historical and biographical works. As a biographer “he was laudatory and patriotic, but not trustworthy.” (Kunitz & Haycraft).