Military History

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  • SCARCE WORK IN FINE FULL VELLUM BY ZAEHNSDORF
    Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Revolution. by RIEDESEL, Mrs. General ( Frederika Charlotte ).
    RIEDESEL, Mrs. General ( Frederika Charlotte ).
    Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Revolution.

    Albany; Joel Munsell, 1867. Full vellum, 8 1/2 inches tall. A splendid full Victorian full vellum by Zaehnsdorf with a crest shaped label and delicate gilt tooling to the smooth spine. A gilt fillet frames the boards. With gilt dentelles and all edges. Foxing to the preliminaries, then clean. Boards slightly splayed. With the armorial bookplate of William Waldorf, Viscount Astor of Hever Castle. Baroness von Riedesel's husband commanded the Brunswick forces with the British Army. This volume contains her Memoirs of this period, including her family's life as prisoners of war.

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