Title: Lot of 6 booklets on shipwrecks published by Thomas Tegg Author: ** Place: London Publisher: Thomas Tegg Date: [c.1810] Description: Includes: Accurate Account of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship Litchfield...on the Coast of Barbary, November 30, 1758... * Authentic Narrative of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Sceptre...in Table Bay, Cape of Good Home, November 6, 1799... * Affecting Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor Indiaman... * Extraordinary Hardships ad Adventures of Captain David Woodward, and Five Companions...including their escape from the Malays, after a Captivity of Near Three Years... * Shiprwreck and Captivity of Captain Donald Campbell, on Leaving Goa for Madras, May 21, 1782... * Adventures of Captain Robert Johnson in the Norhern Cicars of India... Together, 6 booklets. Each 28 pp. Each with folding aquatint frontispiece. 7¼x4, removed from larger volume, spine stitching remains. Lot Amendments Condition: Some foxing and soiling, lower margins of frontispieces shaved in some instances affecting imprint and caption, else very good. Item number: 175164
Title: Lot of 6 booklets on shipwrecks published by Thomas Tegg Author: ** Place: London Publisher: Thomas Tegg Date: [c.1810] Description: Includes: Accurate Account of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship Litchfield...on the Coast of Barbary, November 30, 1758... * Authentic Narrative of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Sceptre...in Table Bay, Cape of Good Home, November 6, 1799... * Affecting Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor Indiaman... * Extraordinary Hardships ad Adventures of Captain David Woodward, and Five Companions...including their escape from the Malays, after a Captivity of Near Three Years... * Shiprwreck and Captivity of Captain Donald Campbell, on Leaving Goa for Madras, May 21, 1782... * Adventures of Captain Robert Johnson in the Norhern Cicars of India... Together, 6 booklets. Each 28 pp. Each with folding aquatint frontispiece. 7¼x4, removed from larger volume, spine stitching remains. Lot Amendments Condition: Some foxing and soiling, lower margins of frontispieces shaved in some instances affecting imprint and caption, else very good. Item number: 175164
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