FIFTY YEARS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE LIFE OF A FORMER MERCHANT

NOLTE, Vincent

Verlag: Redfield, NY, 1854

Beschreibung

Very Good (some wear to head of spine, two signatures lightly sprung but still tight; text nice with a couple of tiny puncture marks to the dedication page). 8vo., 12mo., embossed brown cloth with spine stamped in gilt; 484 pages First American Edition. Adopting New Orleans as his American home, which he defended as a soldier in the Battle of New Orleans, Nolte began thirty-three years of shuttling between New Orleans and the European continent. Although his chief business was cotton speculation, he was early engaged in a gigantic banking scheme to bring silver from Mexico to the United sates and then to ship it to Napoleon. The author spent much time in Mexico and New Orleans, met James Audubon and Henry Clay, reports on the New Madrid earthquake, and was shipwrecked in the Bahamas. he was supposedly the source for Hervey Allen's "Anthony Adverse.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 56073

Bibliografische Details

Titel: FIFTY YEARS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES OR, ...

Verlag: Redfield, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Translated from the German.

Auflage: 1. Auflage