Cook. Ticonderoga Historical Address, 1864

Cook, Joseph. An Historical Address, by Joseph Cook: Delivered at the First Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Ticonderoga, July 25, 1864. Ticonderoga, New York: Ticonderoga Historical Society, 1909. First Edition.[8917] Blue cloth, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 109 pp. plus plates. Top right corner bumped throughout, frontispiece portrait & one other plate detached and laid in, paper quality brittle with some chips & cracks. Fine as a reader or research copy. Fair. Hardcover. July 25th, 1864 was the centennial anniversary of the first land grants in Ticonderoga that became a permanent settlement. At that time, Joseph Cook delivered a detailed historical address based on his years of research, chronicling the military events of the area during the French & Indian and the Revolutionary War. It was not published then. Here is the first appearance of the address in print, published by the Ticonderoga Historical Society.Joseph Flavius Cook (1838-1901), b. & d. in Ticonderoga,