The life of Baron Frederic Trenck
Subtitle: containing his adventures; and 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.
By: Translated from the German, by Thomas Holcroft
Contributors: Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809, tr; Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804, engraver
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 24861
Publisher: By J. Belknap and A. Young, for B. Guild, J. Boyle, B. Larkin, D. West, and E. Larkin, Jun. Sold at their respective bookstores, and by the printers, at their office in State-Street.
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng; ger
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Trenck, Friedrich, -- Freiherr von der, -- 1726-1794; Trenck, Friedrich, -- Freiherr von der, -- 1726-1794 -- Portraits; Prisoners -- Germany -- Prussia; Nobility -- Germany -- Prussia; Austria -- History -- 1740-1789; Prussia (Germany) -- History -- 1740-1789
Genres: Portraits
Notes: Error in paging: p. 174 misnumbered 274

Frontispiece portrait of Trenck engraved by Samuel Hill

"Anecdotes of the life of Alexander Schell, who, an officer of the guard, in Glatz, delivered me from prison, on the 26th of December, 1746, and deserted in my company. Written as a supplement to my own history."--p. [383]-401

Evans 24861

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24861)