Year/Century: 18th century
Language: English
Subject: Americana
Binding: Leather
Description: The voyage of Captain Richard Falconer's perilous adventures and impending escapes. BLENDED WITH THOMAS RANDAL'S TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES... In addition, William Johnson, D.D., chaplain to his monarchy, has made a great delivery at sea [Chetwood, William] For G. Keith, London, 1764 Dimensions: 41 by 67.5"; 222 pages; vi, 36 pages.A frontispiece engraved. Inscription from the first owner, dated 1850, on the front endpaper. original sheep with a reback fixed hinges Because of the victim's interactions with the Indians in the Virginia Tidewater region, this shipwreck account has an Americana quality. This play, which was first published in 1720, has been credited to London dramatist William Rufus Chetwood. "In May 1689, an Englishman named Falconer arrived in Boston. He left early June for Virginia. He was grounded off the coast of Cape Charles. Falconer was attacked by the Indians, according to Chetwood's story, and he was taken prisoner, stripped, and tied to a pole. When he demonstrated to the Indians how to "let blood," he was eventually set free. - Clark. With Charles Fleischmann III's bookplate. Charles Fleischmann III, the great-grandson of the company's founder, established the Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1868. Following its promotion during the 1876 Centennial Exposition, the Fleischmann Yeast Company rose to prominence as the world's leading yeast producer.

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