A short account of Algiers, [electronic resource] : 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.
1794
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A short account of Algiers, [electronic resource] : 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.
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Second edition, improved.
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Philadelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress)
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Language
English
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50, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 8⁰.
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Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.
Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp.
"Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.
Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp.
"Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Evans, 26733
English Short Title Catalog, W29400.
English Short Title Catalog, W29400.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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