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(AUSTRALIA.) Wait, Benjamin. Letters from Van Dieman's Land, Written During Four Years Imprisonment for Political OffencesCommitted in Upper Canada. Folding map, frontispiece portrait. 16mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; moderate foxing, minor dampstaining on front endpapers, lacking rear free endpaper; early library inscription on front free endpaper, inked withdrawal stamp on verso. Buffalo, NY, 1843
Wait was a prominent participant in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 who escaped from the Tasmanian prison colony by an American whaler. Ferguson 3762 (with lengthy historical notes); Howes W16; TPL 2622.
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