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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1900
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner’s Sons Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company
- Pages
- 400 pages
Paul Jones Founder of the American Navy A History by Augustus C. Buell in two volumes Volume II
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About this book
Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. vii, 373. 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.
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