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Byron, John, 1723-1786. The dangers of the deep, or, Interesting narratives of shipwrecks & disasters at sea / by John Byron. London : Orlando Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street, [between 1836 and 1844]
Alternative Title:
Narrative of the loss of the Wager Man-of-War
Dangers of the deep
Interesting narratives of shipwrecks & disasters at sea
Interesting narratives of shipwrecks and disasters at sea
Dangers of the deep
Interesting narratives of shipwrecks & disasters at sea
Interesting narratives of shipwrecks and disasters at sea
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Orlando Hodgson, 111 Fleet Street, [between 1836 and 1844]
Notes:
- First sentence: "The Wager man-of-war, one of the ships attached to Commodore Anson's enterprise, had been an Indiaman, and was deeply laden with all kinds of stores, naval and military, crowded with bale goods, and encumbered with merchandise."
- Includes 1 woodcut.
- Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: one of five ships under the command of Commodore Anson in 1740, wrecked off the coast of Chile. Hand-coloured folding engraved frontispiece. Green wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop, Victoria, B.C. June/64. $6.50.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 11 x 7 cm.
Language:
English
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Chapbook Category:
Travel and Adventure
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
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All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
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http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8246
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H63_D3_1836