The Lost Prince: Facts Tending to Prove the Identity of Louis the Seventeenth, of France, and the Rev. Eleazar Williams, Missionary among the Indians of North America.

John H. [Holloway] Hanson

Published by Bunce & Brother, 1854

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Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Original burgundy cloth covered boards. Lettering on spine repainted; spine faded. Some loss of cloth at spine ends. Inner hinges good. Interior is generally clean. Frontispiece portrait of the author and portraits of Eleazar Williams and Louis XVII on plates. pp. x, [2], (13)-479. A comprehensive investigation, providing proofs of the identity of the Episcopal clergyman and missionary to the Indians, Rev. Eleazar Williams, being the same as that of the lost Dauphin of France, Louis XVII, who had been imprisoned and exiled as a boy during the French Revolution. Inscribed ''Mrs. G. W. Stanton / with the kind regards / of John Hanson / Hoboken Sept 1854''. The author died soon after making this inscription, passing away on October 9th. John Holloway Hanson (1815-1854) was an Episcopal clergyman and, at the time of his death, was the assistant minister at Calvary Church in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Seller Inventory # 015723

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Title: The Lost Prince: Facts Tending to Prove the ...

Publisher: Bunce & Brother

Publication Date: 1854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Signed: Signed by Author(s)