The Weekly Register. Containing Political, Historical, Geographical, Scientifical, Astronomical, Statistical, and Biographical Documents, Essays, and Facts; Together with Notices of the Arts and Manufactures, and a Record of the Events of the Times
From March to September, 1814 - Vol. VI. War of 1812. Baltimore: Printed and Published by the Editor At the Franklin Press, 1819.
First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [3], 448 pages, [1]. Brown leather binding with red leather title label on the spine. Leather is dry, pitted and rubbed on the spine. Edge wear to the boards. Moderate toning and scattered foxing and brown spots to the text. Pages 93, 94 have a large closed tear. Small corner chip to pages 217, 218 with minor loss of printed text. Text is often faint and slanted. Period printed library name label of "Jacob Howard No. 6" on the front paste down. Presentation inscription written in blue pen on the right front flyleaf - "Presented to Lynn W. Landrum by James A. Creighton August 21, 1940 Dallas, Texas." Contents of this volume focuses heavily on the War of 1812 with Great Britain and concludes with the introduction of Monroe's Peace Treaty signed in Ghent, August, 1814. The weekly updates on the War includes correspondence from President James Madison, Major General William Henry Harrison, John Amstrong (Secretary of War), Major General James Wilkinson, Brig. Gen. Tecumseh, Major General Andrew Jackson, Major General Thomas Pinckney, Robert Fulton, Stephen Decatur, and others. Also included in this volume is the trial of Brigadier General Hull with "M. V. Buren" listed as the special judge-advocate. Other battle and war news includes Battle of Chippewa, Death of Lieut. Wilcox, Battle of Bridgewater, The Battle of Niagara, etc. Non War articles include the launching of the new Mississippi Steam Boat "Vesuvius" leaving Pittsburg. The Vesuvius, one of the first Mississippi Steamboats, was built by Mr. Fulton, under the agency of Messrs. Livingston and Latrobe for trading purposes between New Orleans and the falls of the Ohio (Louisville, KY). Other articles include the use of Gas Lights, Vegetable Oil, Reports of Fisheries, Manufactures, etc. Good. Item #15743
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