(TRAVEL) Foss John A Journal of the Captivity and Sufferings

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(TRAVEL.) Foss, John. A Journal of the Captivity and Sufferings . . . Several Years a Prisoner at Algiers. 189 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; tear in upper margin of title page, foxing; partial signature and embossed library stamp on title page. Newburyport, MA: Angier March, 1798

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Second edition, after another of the same year. The memoir of a Newburyport man captured and enslaved by Barbary pirates. Includes, as an appendix with a separate title page, "The Algerine Slaves: A Poem." Howes F280; Sabin 25188. None of either edition traced at auction since 1927.