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[ANON]. An Affecting History of the Captivity & Sufferings of Mrs. Mary Velnet, an Italian Lady, Who Was Seven Years a Slave in Tripoli...Written by Herself.  The First American Edition. Boston: William Crary, [1804?]. 1st ed. 12mo. 164 pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Contemp. leather-backed paper covered boards. Front outer hinge cracked, but sound, one-half of front endpaper lacking; perforated library stamp on title (barely noticeable); a very nice copy. $575.00

 

Wright I, 7a.  S & S 7652.  Huntress 141C: "Probably this was the first, and the prototype, of a number of spurious narratives of shipwrecks and disasters..."  This is the actual first edition, and very rare.