An impartial account of the late famous siege of Gibraltar : to which are added, most accurate plans of the town, and of the approaches and camp of the Spaniards : with many remarkable transactions never made publick before / by An officer, who was at the taking and defence of Gibraltar by the Prince Hesse, of glorious memory; and served in the town, during the last siege.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Officer.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Sotheby, Charles William Hamilton, 1820-1871 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

51 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

ashe aske alg- anup (3) 1728 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Warner ..., 1728.

Notes:

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Trent, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens.

Signatures: A-E⁴ F² G⁴.

Leaf A2 signed A.

Folded map is titled The bay of Gibraltar, with a view of the town &c; and A plan of the enemy's approaches.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate on front pastedown of C.W.H. Sotheby.

Culture Class Collection copy left board is detached.

Cited in:

ESTC, T56914

Furbank and Owens. Defoe deattributions, 502

Moore, J.R. Checklist of the writings of Daniel Defoe, 502

OCLC:

228747528