Beschreibung:

A Letter to a Friend; Giving a concise, but just, Account, according to the Advices hitherto received, of the Ohio-Defeat…. Boston: Edes and Gill, 1755. 15 pp. Small 4to (185 x 125 mm). Modern full brown levant, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles. Title-pages with some pressed creases, tail margin unevenly trimmed, trimmed close, but not affecting text, covers fine. First edition of this rare early account of the defeat of the British colonial forces under General Edward Braddock and Colonel George Washington by the combined French and Indian forces. Howes C331; Sabin 12320. See illustration.