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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/creatorScott, J. T. (Joseph T.), engraver.
Included WorkHumphreys, David, 1752-1818. Poem on the happiness of America. Selections.
Format Electronic and Book
EditionSecond edition, improved.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress.)
Description50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 24 cm (8vo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26733. ^A478749
General noteAttributed to Mathew Carey by Evans.
General noteParentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.
General noteMap 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 noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].
References Evans 26733
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Genre/formCaptivity narratives.
Genre/formPoems 1794.
Genre/formMaps Africa, North.

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