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The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; a containing his adventures, his 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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection D285.8.T7 A3313 1792b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794.
- Standardized Title:
- Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte. English. 1792
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Trenck, Franz, Freiherr von der, 1711-1749.
- Trenck, Franz.
- Prussia (Germany)--History--1740-1815.
- Prussia (Germany).
- Austria--History--Maria Theresa, 1740-1780.
- Austria.
- History.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by W. Woodhouse, at the Bible no. 6, South Front-street, 1792.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte.
- Publisher's advertisement: p. [1] at end.
- "The history of Francis, baron Trenck, a partisan colonel, and commander in chief of the pandours, in the service of Her Majestry the Empress-Queen; written by Frederic baron Trenck, as a necessary supplement to his own history" ... (p. [269]-309) has separate t.-p., dated: M.DCC.XII [i.e. 1792]
- Cited in:
- Evans 24862
- OCLC:
- 34696617
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