A Journal Comprising the Loss of the Brig Commerce Slaves Robbins Hartford 1817

Description: A JOURNAL Compromising an account of the BRIG COMMERCE, of Hartford, (con) James Riley, Master, Upon the Western Coast of Africa, August 25, 1815. Also the Slavery and Sufferings of the Author and the rest of the crew, upon the Desert of Zahara in the years 1815, 1816, 1817; with accounts of the Manners, Customs and Habits of the Wandering Arabs; also a brief Historical and Geographical view of the Continent of Africa by ARCHIBALD ROBBINS.Publisher: F. D. Bolles and Company, Hartford, 1817. Description: Full contemporary leather binding with gilt bands and red pastedown label on the spine. Foldout map frontis.Condition: Good. Usual wear to covers for a 200+ year old book. Back spine hinge is split, but held by threads. Free endpaper is missing. The left half of the frontis map is missing. (see photos) Pages are browned, soiled and foxed throughout, but pages are tight to the spine. Owner's name in ink on back free endpaper.Pages: 258Size: 4.5" x 7.25"Weight: 10 ozsWell read and handled old book.Archibald Robbins was among the crew of Captain James Riley's ill-fated slaving expedition to Africa aboard the Brig Commerce. Captured by passing nomads after running aground off the African coast, the crew suffered abuse and severe thirst and hunger during their journey through the Sahara. Captain Riley released a book of the same account, "Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig 'Commerce,' " but Robbins' journal narrates from the perspective of a crew member, describing in detail the challenges they endured as they struggled to get back home. Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate. Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells!This book is from the estate of Caroline (Caro) Weir Ely (1884 - 1974). She was an accomplished bookbinder, printmaker, etcher, and painter. She was educated in both New York and Paris and continued to work, maintaining a studio, even after she married and became a mother, a rare occurrence in the early 1900s. She settled in Old Lyme, Connecticut, a town known for its art colony. Like her father Julian Alden Weir a noted American Impressionist painter, she often painted near her home. Following her father's death, she sometimes printed his etched plates, producing posthumous editions of his landscape prints. Wikipedia

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