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BUELL, AUGUSTUS C. PAUL JONES FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN NAVY, TWO VOLUMES. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.
Blue cloth boards and spine, stamped round gilt emblems to front board, gilt title, author and volume number to spine. Clean illustrated ex-libris plate to paste-down of each volume. Very clean text, solidly bound. Light rubbing to extremities and boards. First Edition, two very handsome volumes. sm 8 vo. 328, 373

First edition Captain John Paul Jones; Kirkbean, (Scotland, July 6,1747 - July 18,1792, Paris). From humble beginnings, John Paul at the young age of 12 sailed from Whitehall to Va. to pay a visit to his brother. His youth was spent sailing on trading voyages and slave trade ships, at the age of 22 he was a merchant ship-master. Upon his brother death in Virginia in 1773 he took over his plantation, shortly after volunteering to serve in the early part of the War of Independence. Jones was named First Lieutenant in 1775 whe Congress decided to create a navy "for the defece of American liberty". In the "Preface" the author states (paraphrasing): Jone Paul Jones left no family to preserve his records, some which were in English others in French. After his death the papers were scattered throughout the United States, Scotland and France. These two volumes represent an "effort to combine the most important or most interesting parts or elements - his own papers on the one hand, and those of his contemporaries on the other. " Vol. I. Illustrations: Portrait of Paul Jones, Frontispiece; Map of the British Isles: showing track charts of the Ranger and the Bon Homme Richard.; Outboard Profile of the Bon Homme Richard: from a print in Pierre Gerard's "Memoir du Combate."; Plan of the Battle of the Bon Homme Richard and The Serapis: a redraft from the original sketch by John Paul. Vol. II. Portrait of Paul Jones, from a painting by Charles Willson Peale; Fac-simile of an Autograph Letter from Paul Jones to Washington, from a photograph of the original in the Department of State Archives, Washintgon. Chapters: Volume I: Sailor and Planter; Founding the American Navy; Cruises of the Providence and The Alfred; In Command of the Ranger; The French Alliance; The Capture of the Drake; An Appeal to King Louis; On the Bon Homme Richard; The Battle with the Serapis; A Diplomatic Duel' Aimee De Telison. Chapter II.: The Chevalier Paul Jones; Controversies and Honors in America; Prize-Money Settlements; Admiral in the Russian Navy; The Conquest of the Turks; Russian Intrique and Calumny; Last Years and Death. Appendix: The Portrais of Paul Jones; Roster of the Ranger; Roster of the Bon Homme Richard; Roster of the Seraps; Works Consulted. Index.
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COLLETT, After John (1725?-1780): Paul Jones shooting a Sailor who had attempted to strike his Colours in an Engagement. From the original picture by John Collet [sic], in the possession of Carrington Bowles,

London: printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, 2 December 1779. Mezzotint with original hand-colouring, after the painting by John Collett. Plate mark: 13¾ x 9¾ inches. Sheet size: 15 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches. In excellent condition apart from some toning to the margins, and a four inch repaired tear to the upper blank margin. An extremely fine example of this excessively rare print, with beautiful original colouring, depicting the pivotal moment of one of the most famous naval engagements of the Revolutionary War The first of three versions of this British satirical war print, each with the same title. Captain John Paul Jones is shown "preventing" one of his men from striking the American flag and surrendering to the British, during the naval engagement between HMS Serapis and his U.S. fighting Ship Bonhomme Richard. Collett depicts an impassioned Jones, wearing a lavishly plumed hat and a bandana, four pistols stuck pirate-style in his belt, cutlass tucked under his left arm. The American naval captain wades through the wounded to shoot his chief gunner, Henry Gardner. It is probably based on an incident in which a shell-shocked American gunner shouted for quarter until Jones knocked him down with the butt a pistol. "Near midnight on Sept. 23, 1779, just off the coast of Flamborough Head, England, hundreds of British stood in awe, watching 'pirate Paul Jones' destroy one of the finest ships in their fine Navy. The English viewed Jones as a criminal, equating his vicious attacks on British convoys with the fighting techniques of Blackbeard himself. On that clear warm autumn night, the shocked audience witnessed Jones in one of the most hard-fought battles of the Revolution. Meanwhile, the surviving seamen of the 42-gun Bonhomme Richard must have thought their commander, Capt. John Paul Jones, had gone insane. Separated by two feet, the double deck HMS Serapis, a well-made and brand new British escort ship, was shooting 18-pound cannon balls into the 14-year-old single deck Bonhomme Richard; cannon balls that from 200 yards could shoot through four feet of oak. Near the battle's end, half the crewmates on each ship were dead ... and both ships were on fire. Capt. Pearson, commander of Serapis assumed Bonhomme Richard would be the first to surrender. He asked Jones, 'Do you strike?' According to battle expert Peter Reaveley, Jones screamed out, 'No! I'll sink, but I'm damned if I'll strike!' The following quotation is more famously noted as Jones' retort: 'I have not yet begun to fight!'. The battle established the Continental Navy as a powerful force and Capt. John Paul Jones as a hero" (Joanna Romansic, see online"NHC Joins Search for John Paul Jones' Ship"). "Principally a caricaturist, John ['the second Hogarth'] Collett (British, ca.1725-1780) studied with the artist George Lambert and at the St. Martin's Lane Academy, London. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1761, his last exhibit occuring posthumously in 1783. His caricatures owe a great debt to Hogarth ... His work was widely reproduced as prints by many of the leading publishers of the day, John Boydell, Carington Bowles, and others ... A large inheritance allowed him to live in some style in Chelsea, London. Examples of his work may be seen in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum" (Thomas Deans). Carrington Bowles flourished in late 18th-century London as a publisher of caricatures engraved in mezzotint. His regular practice was to commission a painting, have it engraved, then make prints of it for sale to the public under his own imprimatur. As with this image, Bowles' prints are not usually signed by the engraver. This print is described as "excessively rare" in the 1904 auction catalogue of the Hampton L. Carson Collection of Engraved Portraits of American Naval Commanders, and it sold for the substantial sum of fifty dollars. Cf. Grolier The United Sattes Navy 1776 to 1815 269 (uncoloured issue); S.V. Henkels. Hampton L. Carson Collection of engraved portraits of American naval commanders... catalog and sale (Philadelphia, 1905), Lot 4297; Olds Bits and Pieces of American History 366; Shadwell American printmaking the fisrt 150 years 65; Smith American naval Broadsides 23.

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JONES, (John) Paul. A British pirate shaping America's ideals of liberty and independence from tyranny Memoires, ou il expose ses principaux services, et rappelle ce qui lui est arrive de plus remarquable pendant le cours de la revolution americaine, particulierement en Europe, ecrits par lui-meme en anglais, et traduits sous ses yeux par le citoyen Andre. Paris, Chez Louis, An VI. 1798.
Original and only edition of the memoirs of the famous (John) Paul Jones (1747-1792), fighter for the American Independence as "Romantic freebooter and pirate". The man whom Thomas Jefferson later described as "the principal hope of America's future efforts on the ocean" was born in 1747 in Kirkbean, Scotland. At the age of twelve he became apprentice to a merchant in Whitehaven, who traded on America. At twenty-one he received his first command on the brig "John". In 1773 he got involved in a mutiny and killed a crewman at Tobago in the West Indies. Rather than stay in prison and wait for trial, he fled to Virginia. From that point the British considered him to be a pirate. In 1775, when the War of Indepence broke out and the American Congress thought about organizing a navy, Jones was received his lieutenant's commission from the Continental Congress for its navy aboard the "Alfred". He soon was promoted captain on the "Providence" and he took part in the first obscure but heroic sea battles with five or six ships against a much bigger English fleet. In 1777 he was sent to France to the American commissaries with the promess of an important command. It was there that Jones received from the French the first salute given to the new American flag by a foreign warship. But the French were not yet ready to fight England and the only thing they could do was sent him with the small fregat "Ranger" with 18 canons to do his will against the English at sea. During the spring he terrorized the coastal population of Scotland and England by making daring raids ashore and destroying many British vessels. So, he swept down on Whitehaven in 1778 and set fire to the harbour, attacked the isle St. Marie and surprised the Castle of Selkirk, where his father had been gardener. This first expedition was followed by many no less daring expeditions and raids, for which the French King presented him with the Order of Military Merit and a gold sword. Although hailed as a hero in both Paris and Philadelphia, Jones encountered such stiff political rivalry at home that he never again held a major American command at sea. In 1788 the Empress Catharine II 'the Great' appointed him rear admiral in the Russian navy and he took a leading part in the Black Sea campaign against the Ottoman Turks. In 1790 he retired at went to live in Paris, where he died and was burried in 1792. In 1905, however, his remains were brought to the United States where, in 1913, they were finally enterred in the U.S. Navy Academy Chapel at Anapolis, Maryland.During the nineteenth century, John Paul Jones was idolized as a man of action. He has been the subject of at least thirty biographies and forty chapbooks. Writers like Allan Cunninghan, Alexander Dumas, Herman Melville and Sarah Orne, for example, included Johes' fascinating life in their subjects of study, while Cooper based his Le Pilote on him.John Paul Jones not only had a brilliant naval career, he also wrote in detail throughout his life to promote professional naval standards, training and protocol. His official Memoirs, based on his original papers, were published in 1830 (reprinted in 1972). The present highly readable Memoires, the book that shaped the fame of this remarkable and intriguing man in the nineteenth century, are problably not written by Jones himself, but based on oral tradition and published accounts.
Fine copy of this rare book.
Sabin 36559; cf. Ned. Hist. Scheepv. Museum p. 847 (a life of Paul Jones in Dutch from 1829).

Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red title-label, lettered in gold, red painted edges. With engraved frontispiece with the portrait of the author and underneath a view of fighting ships at night at sea. XIX, (1 blank), 244 pp.

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OTIS, JAMES, EDITOR: LIFE OF JOHN PAUL JONES, NY GOSSET & DUNLAP 1900
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WRITTEN FROM ORIGINAL LETTERS AND MAUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE RELATIVES OF JOHN PAUL JONES, AS WELL AS THE COLLECTION PREPARED BY JOHN HENRY SHERBURNE TOGETHER WITH CHEVALIER JONES' OWN ACCOUNT OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE LIMAN; LIFE OF JOHN PAUL JONES; JAMES OTIS, EDITOR; GOSSET AND DUNLAP; NY; 1900; NY; 25.00; MAY BE FIRST; BIOGRAPHY; 000002 No Jacket Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Private Press

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