Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship; Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R.I., One of the Prisoners

by Thomas Dring

$450 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

Providence: H. H. Brown, 1829. 12mo. 167 pages. Folding frontis. Cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine and tips. Name autographed on fly. Minor foxing and browning throughout, front board detached, else a very good copy. Item #205841 FIRST EDITION. Folding frontispiece with a view of the ship's exterior and accompanying diagrams of two decks. This former ship-of-the-line was converted into a warehouse and

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