The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of the Camp, Court, Clubs & Society, 1810-1860

Gronow, R. H

J.C. Nimmo, 1892

2 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth, tri-colored coat of arms on front boards. TEG. Bindings shaken, hinges cracked. Cracks to gutters in bindings, resulting in a few loose pages. Clean, unmarked pages. With portrait and  32 hand-colored plates from contemporary sources, by Joseph Grego. Hand colored frontis and plates. Gift inscription on fep, W.B. Davis, US Army, 1892.   Acquired in Baltimore from the estate of Charles Bonaparte. Bonaparte was a member of the Roosevelt administration.  He served as  U.S. Secretary of the Navy and later the U.S. Attorney General.