Sparks, Jared; Bowen, Francis; Hayward, Charles, Jr.; Felton, Cornelius C. Lives of Baron Steuben, Sebastian Cabot and William Eaton (The Library of American Biography, vol. ix.). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. [10892]
Dark brown cloth with blind designs to the boards, gilt to the spine, slight edge-wear, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. 1880 & 1889 inscriptions on the ffep. Lacks several free end papers (blanks) front and back. Extra engraved title page. 358 pages, tight, foxing. Good. Hardcover.
The lives of Baron von Steuben, the German officer who trained the American army at Valley Forge, enabling them to defeat the British forces; the explorer Sebastian Cabot; and the eccentric William Eaton, whose escapades in north Africa are remembered in the US Marine's hymn with the line, "to the shores of Tripoli."
