07/18/2026
📚 SOLD 📚
VERCHÈRES, FOSTER — WAR ON THE DETROIT
The Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1940
Hardcover, approx. 4 1/2” x 6 7/8”, 347 numbered pages, with fold-out map
This handsome little volume is part of the celebrated Lakeside Classics series, published annually since 1903 by R.R. Donnelley & Sons as a Christmas keepsake — never sold, only gifted, which makes surviving copies prized by collectors of Americana and fine printing alike.
Edited by historian Milo M. Quaife, it brings together two rare firsthand accounts of the War of 1812 on the Detroit frontier: the chronicle of Thomas Verchères de Boucherville, a young Canadian fur trader who witnessed the fall of Detroit, and “The Capitulation” by an Ohio Volunteer, giving the American side of General Hull’s infamous surrender. Together they offer a vivid, ground-level view of one of the most dramatic episodes in Canadian and American history.
A wonderful piece of War of 1812 history in the elegant pocket-sized format the Lakeside Classics are known for.
Sold to a collector in Ottawa. 🇨🇦
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