Item #40147 Simcoe's Military Journal. [With an Introduction by John Gellner]. John Graves SIMCOE.

Simcoe's Military Journal. [With an Introduction by John Gellner].

Toronto. Baxter Publishing Co. 1962. Soft cover. 4to. 26cm, xiii,150p. with a tipped-in colour photographic frontis portrait and 5 maps, mapped endpapers, Canadian Heritage Series, volume two, a numbered reprint of the 1784 London edition, this is copy #302, signed by the editor, John Gellner & the publisher, bound in full dark blue morocco grain fabrikoid, gilt spine & cover titles and decorations, in fine slipcase, fine condition. (cmt) Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada and the virtual founder of Toronto, commanded the Queen's Rangers from the period 1777 to 1778. His Journal, which was first privately published in 1787, gives a detailed account of the Rangers' role in the War of Independence. Item #40147

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