The king of pirates: : being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, the mock king of Madagascar with his rambles and piracies wherein all the sham accounts formerly publish'd of him, are detected. In two letters from himself; one during his stay at Madagascar, and one since his escape from thence
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The king of pirates: : being an account of the famous enterprises of Captain Avery, the mock king of Madagascar with his rambles and piracies wherein all the sham accounts formerly publish'd of him, are detected. In two letters from himself; one during his stay at Madagascar, and one since his escape from thence
- Publication date
- 1720
- Topics
- Avery, John, fl. 1695
- Publisher
- London, : Printed for A. Bettesworth..., C. King..., J. Brotherton and W. Meadows..., W. Chetwood..., and sold by W. Boreham...
- Collection
- bplscdefoe; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
Signatures: A³, B-N(last leaf and verso of N³blank; wanting N)
Printed 10 Dec. 1719. Cf. J.B. Moore, A checklist of the writings of Danel Defoe
"Fiction with scarcely a substratum of fact". Dict. nat. biog
References: Moore 424; Boston Public Library, Catalog of the Defoe collection, item 402; Esdale, A.J.K., A list of English tales and prose fiction printed before 1740, p. 205; not in McBurney
Moore
Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) has two copies: the Defoe copy is ex libris (book label) Huth Collection
Printed 10 Dec. 1719. Cf. J.B. Moore, A checklist of the writings of Danel Defoe
"Fiction with scarcely a substratum of fact". Dict. nat. biog
References: Moore 424; Boston Public Library, Catalog of the Defoe collection, item 402; Esdale, A.J.K., A list of English tales and prose fiction printed before 1740, p. 205; not in McBurney
Moore
Boston Public Library (Rare Book Dept.) has two copies: the Defoe copy is ex libris (book label) Huth Collection
- Addeddate
- 2009-04-01 20:17:56
- Call number
- 39999059852812
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:85797840
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- kingofpiratesbei00defo
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- ark:/13960/t59c79d0h
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- Pages
- 114
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 500
- References
- Moore 424
- Scandate
- 20090403164400
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- 1
- Scanner
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- Scanningcenter
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- Source
- bplsc
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 6831016
- Full catalog record
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January 4, 2023
Subject: Interesting book. 1 of the best i have read.
Subject: Interesting book. 1 of the best i have read.
What an adventure. So much money they could take. Interesting escape route to Marseille. Curiosa: the book cost 1 shilling in 1720. That is about 5 euros today.
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