Banvard, Joseph. Pioneers of the New World and the Old French War with an Account of various interesting contemporaneous events which occurred in the Early Settlement of America (Young Folks Series). Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1880. [10837]
Green publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, black, and red, binding is bright and clean, 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Small private name stamps on front end papers. End papers are foxed; rest generally clean. Frontispiece with tissue guard; this edition has text illustrations, but no additional plates. 280 clean pp., 12 pp. publisher's catalogue, tight. Very good. Hardcover.
Accounts of colonial times in America, with emphasis on military events up to and including part of the American Revolution.
Joseph Banvard (1810-1887), b. New York City; d. Neponset, Massachusetts. Born to a family belonging to the Moravian Church, Banvard became a Baptist pastor, historical writer, and hymnodist. His father descended from the French Huguenots, and his mother's family traced back to the earliest New England settlers.
"He had a keen interest in American history, especially that of the colonial era. In his writing of history he showed some knowledge of the use of sources." - prabook online.
