Circumstantial Account of the Wreck of his Majesty's Ship Phoenix, of 44 Guns, which was Lost in a Hurricane, off Cuba, in the West Indies, in the year 1780, as Communicated by Lieutenant Archer in a Letter to his Mother. Also, the Sufferings of Francis Pirard De Laval, on the Maldiva Islands.

London: Thomas Tegg, (1810). "The Phoenix was one of thirteen ships of the Royal Navy lost in a terrible hurricane about October, 1780. The ship was helpless in the storm and just as it was feared that she would founder she struck on the coast of Cuba. Most of the crew, about 250, were rescued... Most of the other ships lost had no survivors. Archer's lively letter to his mother gives many details of the cruise and wreck" - Huntress 143 C. De Laval was shipwrecked off the Maldives and spent ten years there before returning to France. The "Phoenix" account was reprinted by Tegg, with De Laval's account added. This is listed as 153C in Huntress, and is the edition being offered here. Bound in old marbled wraps, with dramatic folding frontispiece (a Tegg staple) partially rebacked.. 18 cm. 28 pp. b/w folding aquatint frontispiece