Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BYRNE, GERRALD. Several Instances of the Wrongs and Oppressions Suffered by the Sailers of the English Navy, from the beginning of the Late War [caption title]. [2] leaves. Folio, 19th-century 1/2 cloth; contents dampstained, blank gutters partly restored on both leaves not affecting text. Np, [1699]

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Protest against unjust payment practices affecting seamen, addressed to Parliament. Wing B6407A. ESTC locates only 2 copies of this edition (at the National Maritime Museum and Yale) and 2 of an edition dated 1699 (at the Huntington Library and Library Company of Philadelphia).