Paul Jones Founder of the American Navy A History by Augustus C. Buell in two volumes Volume I

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First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. xv, 328. Frontispiece portraits of Paul Jones, map, plan, double facsimile, diagrams. Inscribed by Buell (1847-1904) to Persifor Frazer on front flyleaf. This ‘authoritative’ biography of John Paul Jones is larded with fake documentation. See A. Grafton, Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship. London, 1990, pp. 34, 137 n. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.