Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An affecting history of the captivity & 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.
Call Number
Hamilton 185
Identifier
ark:/88435/bg257p22x
Publisher
Boston: Published for W. Crary [1800?]
Language
English
Date Created
1800
Extent
96 p. ill. 17 cm.
Provenance
Inscribed in ink on first fly leaf: "John Bright Jun. property--Waltham," and "John Bright Jun. Waltham 1810 July 15th" on last leaf.
References
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 185
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With woodcut frontispiece showing Mary in her dungeon loaded with irons.
Binding Note
Original wooden boards and leather back.

Discovery Information

Subject
Velnet, Mary b. 1774
Slavery—Libya—Tripoli

Physical Characteristics

File Count
104

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/238ea668-1fc2-4b68-9f0c-79ea146662b3/manifest