Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(INDIAN CAPTIVITY.) Dickinson, Jonathan. God's Protecting Providence . . . Evidenced in remarkable Deliverance of Robert Barrow . . . from the cruel devouring Jaws of the inhuman Cannibals of Florida . . . The Seventh Edition. 123 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn; front free endpaper torn, some foxing and staining. Philadelphia, 1791
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The 1699 First Edition of this narrative is essentially unobtainable. All 18th-century American editions are uncommon. This 1791 edition not listed in Ayer. "The original edition of this popular narrative of a captivity among Florida Indians was the first book of general interest printed in Philadelphia"--Howes D317; Bristol B7685; Shipton & Mooney 46155.