MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL ANDREW BURN, Of The Royal Marines; Collected From His Journals: With Copious Extracts From His Principal Works on Religious Subjects. Two Volumes.
London: Printed and Sold by Messrs. W. Winchester and Son, 61, Strand. 1815. First Edition (& 1st printing). Two volumes. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled paper boards, the spine with raised bands, decorated in gold in the compartments and on the bands. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Vol. 1, by Winchester & Son, Strand, 1 June 1815. Pp [i]-[v], vi-xxiii, [xxiv: Errata in Vol. 1.]; [1], 2-287, [288: Printer's imprint]; [1], 2-248, [1: List of Subscribers], 2-55, [56: blank], [57: Errata in Vol.II, [58] blank. Collated complete. Scattered foxing; binding a bit rubbed & scuffed, hairline crack along front hinge of Vol. II (holding well); a clean, sound, attractive set. The second edition of this work [1816] is relatively common, but this first edition is decidedly scarce. Sabin 72492. Item #313457
¶ Major-General Burns' memoirs contain detailed firsthand accounts of his time spent on assignment in the West Indies and East Indies in the mid and late 18th century during the American Revolution. He describes actions on the New England coast during the War of Independence, at Marblehead and Nantucket.
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