A short account of Algiers : and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.
Author/creator |
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 |
Other author/creator | Scott, J. T. (Joseph T.), engraver. |
Included Work | Humphreys, David, 1752-1818. Poem on the happiness of America. Selections. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Edition | Second edition, improved. |
Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress.) |
Description | 50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 24 cm (8vo) |
Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
Subject(s) |
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Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26733. ^A478749 |
General note | Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans. |
General note | Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint. |
General note | Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp. |
General note | "Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50. |
General note | Bookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52]. |
References | Evans 26733 |
Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26733). |
Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |
Genre/form | Captivity narratives. |
Genre/form | Poems 1794. |
Genre/form | Maps Africa, North. |
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