A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, and the sufferings of the master and the crew while in bondage among the Arabs; interspersed with numerous remarks upon the country and its inhabitants, and concerning the peculiar perils of that coast
- New-York: Captain James Riley, 1818
New-York: Captain James Riley, 1818. Very Good. New-York: Captain James Riley, 1818. First American Edition. Octavo; modern calf over marble paper-covered boards, black gilt spine label, retaining front free endpaper; xvi,[17],332pp. (collated complete). Textblock a bit shaken and rather foxed and damp stained, contemporary ownership signature of a Jacob Shotwell dated 1820 at head of title page, else a Very Good, sound copy in sturdy new binding.
Popular account of shipwreck and forced bondage published by abolitionist Captain James Riley (1777-1840), himself made famous by his own enslavement in the Spanish Sahara following a shipwreck off the Cape Bajador. Riley was eventually purchased by the British and returned to the United States where he wrote the 1817 best-seller "An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig." Paddock's account, something of a companion piece to Riley's, was published a year later.
AMERICAN IMPRINTS 45195.
Popular account of shipwreck and forced bondage published by abolitionist Captain James Riley (1777-1840), himself made famous by his own enslavement in the Spanish Sahara following a shipwreck off the Cape Bajador. Riley was eventually purchased by the British and returned to the United States where he wrote the 1817 best-seller "An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig." Paddock's account, something of a companion piece to Riley's, was published a year later.
AMERICAN IMPRINTS 45195.