SEQUEL TO RILEY'S NARRATIVE: BEING A SKETCH OF INTERESTING INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE, VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF CAPT. JAMES RILEY COMPILED BY HIS SON W. WILLSHIRE RILEY
by Riley, W. W. (editor)
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Columbus:: George Brewster.. Good with no dust jacket. 1851. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" ; Xii, 448 pages; With folding map and 18 [of 19 called for] plates, a plate facing p251 is called for but was not published. In full leather, with leather spine label intact, binding tight- heavy chipping at head and foot of spine. Six panel folding map of Algiers. Lacks free endpapers, some generally quite light foxing. Even after the harrowing experiences Riley endured following the wreck of his brig Commerce on the shores of Algeria, which included enslavement by wandering Arabs, Riley continued trading with North Africa. .
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- SEQUEL TO RILEY'S NARRATIVE: BEING A SKETCH OF INTERESTING INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE, VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF CAPT. JAMES RILEY COMPILED BY HIS SON W. WILLSHIRE RILEY
- Author
- Riley, W. W. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- George Brewster.
- Place of Publication
- Columbus:
- Date Published
- 1851
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