or reminiscences of the life of a former merchant. Second English edition. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. xxii, 484pp. London, 1854.
These are the sheets of the New York edition issued with a London titlepage. Nolte’s is the tale of an oft thwarted merchant who tried everything from gun-running to cotton dealing and banking. Unfortunately his associates, backers and bankers invariably proved his undoing by disowning him or going under. He spent a great deal of time in New Orleans, was present there in the winter of 1814/15 serving under Andrew Jackson with whom he quarrelled. Sabin, 55411.
