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The memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland officer, [electronic resource] : Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland, exhibiting a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramkins, Alexander, 1672-1719?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],86,[2]p. )
- Other Title:
- Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland officer,
- Place of Publication:
- Corke : Printed by and for Thomas Pilkington, book-seller in Castle-street, 1741.
- Notes:
- Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs.
- Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
- The final leaf contains 'The publisher to the reader'.
- Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T171627.
- OCLC:
- 509174542
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