POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY THE AUTHOR WHILE HE FOLLOWED THE SEA, AND DURING A JOURNEY FROM NEW-BRUNSWICK, IN NEW-JERSEY, TO MONTREAL AND QUEBEC.
Cincinnati. 1824. 160pp. Contemporary calf, red leather label (chipped). Some minor scuffing to extremities. Foxed. A good copy. Item #WRCAM22365
Second edition, after the first of the previous year. "Guest, a revolutionary soldier, came to Cincinnati in 1817 and gives some account of his residence there. His voyages were to the Georgia and the Carolina coasts" - Howes. During the Revolution Guest had served in the militia unit which captured the noted partisan, Col. Lincoln, as well as John Graves Simcoe, in New Jersey in October 1779. Many of the poems relate to the Revolution, e.g. Gen. Washington, Col. Simcoe's expedition, etc. The journal, which records three distinct travels, begins on page eighty-three, and describes trips to Cuba and the Bahamas in the 1780s, a trek from New Brunswick to Canada in 1796, and a trip from New Brunswick to Cincinnati in 1817. Felcone states that only some copies of the second edition include a plate. The copy at hand does not have such a plate, and there is no evidence that one has been removed. HOWES G456. THOMSON 471. SABIN 29139. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 16357. FELCONE COLLECTION 744.
Price: $300.00