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Verlag: Berlin. bei Haude und Spener. 1801, 1801
Anbieter: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 16mo, 17cm, 352p., oval engraved title vingette, folding engraved frontis with illustrations and facsimiles printing, in the original cross grain green cloth, gilt title and spine decorations, decorated gilt borders on the boards, original patterned endpapers, a fine copy in its original state, certainly rare thus. (cgc) Howes R284. Clark I: 295. Sabin 71300. Not in Amicus. Called the third edition by Howes, preceded only by a privately printed edition for the family and the first published edition, both of the previous year. Although bibliographers often attribute this book to both Riedesels, it was in fact written by Mrs. Riedesel. Friedrich Riedesel was in command of the German troops sent to Canada in February of 1776to aid the British. His wife joined him there in the spring of 1777 and accompanied him on the campaign under Burgoyne which went south into New York that fall, ending in the defeat and surrender of all of Burgoyne's forces at Saratoga on October 17, 1777. The Riedesels were then captives of the Americans (although under loose parole), first at Cambridge and then in Virginia, whence the captive army was moved in late 1778. There life was quite pleasant, and the prisoners became friendly with Thomas Jefferson. Later they spent time in Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, New York and Canada, before finally returning to Europe in 1783. "Mme Riedesel's narrative and descriptions are written with impressive directness and simplicity; there is a quality of genuineness about them that bespeaks her sterling character and the honesty of her record" - Clark.