The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes, historical, political and personal.

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  • The life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his adventures, his cruel and excessive sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the fortress of Magdeburg, by command of the late King of Prussia; also, anecdotes, historical, political and personal.
  • Merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte. Vol.4. English
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Imprint
[Albany]: Printed for Thomas Spencer, and bound and sold at his book-store four doors north of the Dutch Church, Market-Street, Albany, 1794.
Added name
Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809, tr. Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver. Spencer, Thomas, 1752-1840, bookseller.
Publication year
1794
ESTC No.
W13613
Grub Street ID
322960
Description
345, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 12⁰
Note
Translated by Thomas Holcroft.

Frontispiece portrait of Trenck engraved by James Smither.

"The history of Francis Baron Trenck, a partizan colonel, and commander in chief of the pandours, in the service of Her Majesty the Empress-Queen; written by Frederic Baron Trenck, as a necessary supplement to his own history."--p. [269]-309, with separate title page (Evans 27813).
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Signatures: [A]? B-2E? 2F?(-2F6) (2F5 verso blank)