HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF THE WAR IN WEST FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA IN 1814 - 1815....
Latour, Arsene Lacarriere:
Philadelphia. 1816. xx,264,cxc pp., plus eight maps and plans (seven folding). Half title. Modern polished calf, tooled in gilt, gilt leather label. Tanned, some scattered foxing. "General Map of the Seat of War" neatly repaired, but with some slight loss. Overall, very good. One of the most important books on the War of 1812 in the South and West, describing the campaign around the battle of New Orleans. "Major Latour's account of the military events is minute and interesting, and the appendix contains an invaluable collection of state papers" - Sabin. "Chief authority, well-documented, on these operations" - Howes. The eight maps (Sabin states that there are only seven) consist of battle plans and "A General Map of the Seat of War in Louisiana and West Florida" executed by Major Latour in his capacity as engineer. Streeter describes the maps and plans (which are sometimes found bound in a separate atlas) as "invaluable," and Clark calls the HISTORICAL MEMOIR... "a detailed and precise narrative of the 1814-15 campaign from the first arrival of British forces on the Louisiana coast until their complete evacuation." The portrait of Jackson, not found in all copies, is not present here. SABIN 39214. CLARK II:158. STREETER SALE 1075. HOWES L124, "aa." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 38034, 38035. SERVIES 878.
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