Author: MILFORD, LOUIS LECLERC DE (JEAN-ANTOINE LE CLERC)
Title: Memoir, or a Cursory Glance at My Different Travels & My Sojourn in the Creek Nation
Description: Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1956. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, fore and bottom edges deckle, t.e.g, Translated by Geraldine DeCourcy. Edited by John Francis McDermott. Illustrated with a color map of Creek nation and illustrations from the original French edition of 1802. Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, also known as Louis Milfort, also spelled as Milford (1752 - 1820) was a French military officer and adventurer who led Creek Indian warriors during the American Revolutionary War as allies of the British. He emigrated to the British Colonies in North America in 1775. Beginning in 1776, he lived with the Creek Indians of the Upper Towns for about 20 years in frontier territory of present-day Alabama. His memoirs were originally published as "Mémoires, ou coup-d'oeil rapide sur mes voyages en Louisiane, et mon séjour dans la nation Creeke" (Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Giguet et Michaud, 1802). This Lakeside Classics edition is the first English translation. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 54. Illustrations and Map. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (lvi), 257 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: History; American History; Memoirs; Biography; American Indians; Native Americans; Travel; Lakeside Classics; Lakeside Press; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: Memoir, or a Cursory Glance at My Different Travels & My Sojourn in the Creek Nation
Description: Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1956. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, fore and bottom edges deckle, t.e.g, Translated by Geraldine DeCourcy. Edited by John Francis McDermott. Illustrated with a color map of Creek nation and illustrations from the original French edition of 1802. Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, also known as Louis Milfort, also spelled as Milford (1752 - 1820) was a French military officer and adventurer who led Creek Indian warriors during the American Revolutionary War as allies of the British. He emigrated to the British Colonies in North America in 1775. Beginning in 1776, he lived with the Creek Indians of the Upper Towns for about 20 years in frontier territory of present-day Alabama. His memoirs were originally published as "Mémoires, ou coup-d'oeil rapide sur mes voyages en Louisiane, et mon séjour dans la nation Creeke" (Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Giguet et Michaud, 1802). This Lakeside Classics edition is the first English translation. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 54. Illustrations and Map. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (lvi), 257 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: History; American History; Memoirs; Biography; American Indians; Native Americans; Travel; Lakeside Classics; Lakeside Press; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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- Book number: 9092
- Book number: 9092
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