Journal, of a Young Man of Massachusetts, Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer, who was Captured at Sea by the British, in May, Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England__And Last, at Dartmoor Prison
- Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper….78 State-Street, 1816
Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper….78 State-Street, 1816. Hardcover. 12mo (7.25” x 4.25”), full original calf. 240 pp. Early bookplate of “Alden Chase, Woodstock, Me.” at front pastedown. Early inscription of “Estella G. Ford” in pencil at front pastedown and on title. Lacking engraving. CONDITION: Good, spine rubbed, title label illegible, covers somewhat worn, foxing throughout, bit of worming at upper-right margin of some leaves, not affecting text, loss to lower corner of pp. 73–74 with loss of approx. 15 words. Stated “second edition.” Howes W155; Wright 2674.
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Title
Journal, of a Young Man of Massachusetts, Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer, who was Captured at Sea by the British, in May, Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England__And Last, at Dartmoor Prison
Author
Babcock, Amos G.; Benjamin Waterhouse ed
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Publisher
Boston: Printed by Rowe & Hooper….78 State-Street, 1816