An affecting history of the captivity & sufferings of Mrs. Mary Velnet, an Italian lady Who was seven years a slave in Tripoli, three of which she was confined in a dungeon, loaded with irons, and four times put to the most cruel tortures ever invented by man / written by herself.

Author
Velnet, Mary, 1774- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
The first American edition.
Published/​Created
Boston: Published for W. Crary [1800?]
Description
96 p. ill. 17 cm.

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    Notes
    With woodcut frontispiece showing Mary in her dungeon loaded with irons.
    Binding note
    Original wooden boards and leather back.
    Provenance
    Inscribed in ink on first fly leaf: "John Bright Jun. property--Waltham," and "John Bright Jun. Waltham 1810 July 15th" on last leaf.
    References
    Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 185
    OCLC
    6214611
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