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Hanlins Press, 2006. Paperback. New. 388 pages. 6.00x4.50x0.97 inches.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego, on the Coast of South Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and the crew while in bondage among the Arabs, etc..

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Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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New York: Published by Captain James Riley. J. Seymour, printer, 1818. Softcover. Good. First American edition. Disbound. 186, [2]pp. Large chip and some ink notes on terminal blank, lacking all preliminaries before the title-page, else good.

New York: Published by Captain James Riley. J. Seymour, Printer, 1818. First American Edition. Full calf. Very good. First American Edition of Judah Paddock's A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego.. Octavo, xvi, [17]-332pp. Bound in full calf, title on spine in gilt, decorative bands. Contemporary leather repairs at spine, reinforced front hinge. Previous ownership label on front free endpaper. Front free endpaper previously bonded to front endpaper, leaving a residual mark and small hole. Faint toning throughout with occasional foxing. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase, title in gilt on spine. An attractive presentation. The Ship Oswego was based in Hudson, New York, and commanded by Captain Judah Paddock. In 1800, it sailed for the Cape Verde Islands to load salt for New York, with 14 people on board. The ship was lost, but all 14 hands made it to shore in Lisbon. After a mutiny by the crewmen and nearly dying from dehydration, they were captured by a band of Arabs. They were… Read More

XVI, 372 pp.First British edition, published in the same year as the first American edition, of a detailed narrative of the wreck of the 260 ton American ship Oswego off the coast of Africa near the Canary Islands on 28 March 1800 and the capture of the captain and crew by a party of seven armed Islamic hunters armed with guns and daggers. It was written by the ship's Quaker captain Judah Paddock, whose detailed description of their months in captivity provides a wealth of information about Islamic culture in a region where few Europeans or Americans had ever ventured. Their captors forced them to march inland through the desert for five or six days, where they sold the white prisoners to nomadic shepherds but chose to keep the two black prisoners for their own use and departed with them. With minor foxing (mostly in the title-page and final leaf), some worm damage in the gutter fold of the first and last quire, and a few leaves with a corner torn off, but still in good condition. Binding with a small… Read More