A short account of Algiers : 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.

Author/creator Carey, Mathew
Format Electronic
EditionSecond edition, improved.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 20, 1794. (Copy right secured, according to act of Congress)
Description50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 8⁰.
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General noteAttributed to Mathew Carey by Evans.
General noteParentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.
General noteMap of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp.
General note"Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].
General noteReproduction of original from the British Library.
References Evans, 26733
References English Short Title Catalog, ESTCW29400.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements

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