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Descriptive Information

Title
The voyages, travels, and surprising adventures of Captain Robert Singleton : containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar; of his passage from thence, and travels through the desarts of Africa; his various encounters with savages and wild beasts; his acquiring great riches in gold dust and elephants' teeth, and return to England / by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, &c.
Call Number
Pams / Eng 19 / Box 068 3580
Hamilton 220s
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rx913t681
Publisher
New-York : Printed for Christian Brown, No. 70, Water-Street, 1802.
Language
English
Date Created
1802
Extent
102 p. : 1 ill. (wood engraving) ; 13 cm.
References
Shaw & Shoemaker 2125
Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 276.1
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 220 (different issue)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Frontispiece engraving by Alexander Anderson; cf. Hamilton, cited below.
Princeton copy 2: Signed at head of t.p.: George Onderdonk, Cow Neck, Long Island.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1: Dutch flowered paper over wooden boards; rebacked.
Princeton copy 2: Wrappers wanting.

Discovery Information

Subject
Africa—Description and travel
Madagascar—Description and travel
Voyages, Imaginary
Fiction

Physical Characteristics

File Count
112

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f953c2d-3b81-4f22-bcea-bd8eb09f2da0/manifest