The Wonderful Adventures of Abel Sampson.

£1,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An excellent copy, complete in the original wrappers depicting our author in full gravitas mode. Abel Sampson (b.1790) went to sea on a merchant steamer at the comparatively late age of 18. His career soon changed when he was pressed on board a British Man of War in 1809. He escaped and served briefly on the Middle Pas

• Year: 1847

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