A 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 by [Babcock, Dr. Amos G.] Waterhouse, Benjamin (editor) - 1816: Interspersed with Observations, Anecdotes and Remarks, Tending to Illustrate the Moral and Political Characters of Three Nations, To Which is Added, A Correct Engraving of Dartmoor Prison, Representing the Massacre of American Prisoners

Boston: Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816. Leather bound. Fair. Octavo. 226 pages. Partial frontispiece of Dartmoor Prison remains. Brown leather binding. Leather title label on the spine is missing. Leather binding very worn. Scratches and wear on the covers and spine. About half of the frontispiece illustration is missing and the other half is badly torn with an old stitch repair. Text block lightly shaken with visible stitching in the gutters. Pencil doodles on both paste downs. Text is toned and browned in spots. A few pencil names written in the margins of the text. Pages 40, 44,45 have light stains in the margins. Pages 63, 64 have stitched paper repairs. Blueish stain on page 100 and an orangeish stain on the rear paste down. End sheets removed in back. This is a narrative of a privateer captured by the British during the War of 1812. Dedication page reads - "To the Common Sense and Humane Feelings of the People of America, The Journal is Inscribed, By A Late Prisoner of War With the British." Contents includes a section on the Dartmoor Massacre. Book is in poor to fair condition.

Howes W 155 The Boston edition is listed as a first with reprints in Milledgeville, Georgia and Lexington, Kentucky. (Howes states the author as Dr. Amos G. Babcock).