The Lost Prince 1854 John H Hanson SIGNED Lost Dauphin Louis XVII ~ French Revolution ~ Rev. Eleazar Williams, Missionary among the Indians

Title: 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.

Author: John H. [Holloway] Hanson

Description: 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.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+

Publisher: Bunce & Brother
Place: New York
Year: 1854

Keywords: Lost Dauphin, Louis XVII, biography, history, French Revolution,