[WAR OF 1812] - [CROKER, John Wilson]

A Key to the Orders in Council

London: 1812. [2],19pp. Title leaf detached. Otherwise a clean, very good copy.

Disbound.

A rare War of 1812 pamphlet written by British Secretary to the Admiralty and Member of Parliament John Wilson Croker.

Here, Croker argues the British side of the story in the impending conflict, and urges the United States to see France as the real enemy. Anderson Galleries called this work "extremely rare" in their 1918 catalog for the H.R. Lawrence Collection.

Sabin 37671. Goldsmith-Kress 20412.

Item #34983

Price: $450.00