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The interesting life, travels, voyages, and daring engagements of the celebrated Paul Jones : containing numerous anecdotes of undaunted courage, in the prosecution of his bold enterprizes. : To which is added, the song written on the engagement between the Good Man Richard, and the English frigate Serapis.
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- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17816.
- Standardized Title:
- Life, travels, voyages, and daring engagements of Paul Jones.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
- Jones, John Paul.
- United States. Navy--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- Serapis (Ship).
- Bon Homme Richard (Ship).
- Bon Homme Richard (Ship)--Poetry.
- Serapis (Ship)--Poetry.
- Privateering.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations.
- History.
- Sea control.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile literature -- 1809.
- Poems -- 1809.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 35 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : portrait
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Life of Paul Jones.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed for G. Sinclair, no. 259 Broadway, between Murray and Warren streets., 1809.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Also published under title: The life, travels, voyages, and daring engagements of Paul Jones.
- Running title: Life of Paul Jones.
- The life of John Paul Jones "chiefly written by himself" (p. [3]).
- Edition statement transposed; precedes "To which is added ..." on title page.
- Frontispiece has caption "Paul Jones shooting Lieutenant Grub." and imprint "New York Published by G. Sinclair 235 Broadway." Signed: Charles [i.e., William Charles?] sculp.
- "Song written on the engagemet [sic] between the Good Man Richard, and the English frigate Serapis."--p. 34-35. In verse. Without music.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17816).
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