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[ANON.]. An Affecting History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Mary Velnet, An Italian Lady. Who Was Seven Years a Slave in Tripoli, Three of which, she was confined in a Dungeon, Loaded with Irons, and four times put to the most cruel tortures ever invented by man. Written by Herself. Boston: William Crary, [1804?]. 1st ed. 16mo. 96 pp. Woodcut frontispiece. Contemp. calf-backed plain boards. $475.00

 

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..." Quite a nice copy.