The life of Baron Frederic Trenck : containing his adventures; and cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes historical, political and personal. / Translated from the German, by Thomas Holcroft.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.

Contributor:

Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809, translator.

Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24861.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.

Trenck, Friedrich.

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794--Portraits.

Prisoners--Germany--Prussia.

Prisoners.

Austria--History--1740-1789.

Austria.

History.

Prussia (Germany)--History--1740-1789.

Prussia (Germany).

Nobility--Germany--Prussia.

Nobility.

Germany--Prussia.

Genre:

Portraits.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

417 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 18 cm (12mo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston: : By J. Belknap and A. Young, for B. Guild, J. Boyle, B. Larkin, D. West, and E. Larkin, Jun. Sold at their respective bookstores, and by the printers, at their office in State-Street., MDCCXCII. [1792]

Notes:

Error in paging: p. 174 misnumbered 274.

Frontispiece portrait of Trenck engraved by Samuel Hill.

"Anecdotes of the life of Alexander Schell, who, an officer of the guard, in Glatz, delivered me from prison, on the 26th of December, 1746, and deserted in my company. Written as a supplement to my own history."--p. [383]-401.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24861).

Cited in:

Evans 24861

OCLC:

55829000