(CANADA) Marsh Robert Seven Years of My Life or Narrative of

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(CANADA.) Marsh, Robert. Seven Years of My Life, or Narrative of a Patriot Exile. One full-page woodcut illustration. 12mo, publisher's cloth gilt, moderate wear and staining; lacking front free endpaper, moderate foxing, faint dampstaining; modern bookplate on front pastedown. Buffalo, NY, 1848

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Second edition, after the scarce 1847 edition. Marsh was one of 82 Americans convicted of supporting a rebellion in Upper Canada against British authority, and transported to the penal colony in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania.) He was eventually paroled and returned home to Buffalo. "The most detailed, most graphic, and most valuable of the narratives of exiles to Van Diemen's Land"--Severance, Upper Canada Rebellion, page 471. Ferguson 4822 ("rarest of the Canadian Prisoner Narratives"); Severance, Buffalo Imprints page 601; TPL supplement 5126; not in Lande or Sabin. Neither edition known at auction since 1979. with--Wait, Letters from Van Diemen's Land. Frontispiece portrait, folding map. Small 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf. Sabin 100969; Severance, Buffalo Imprints page 590. Buffalo 1843.