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GREGORY, WILLIAM [association copy] - The Second Edition of a Visible Display of Divine Providence
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GREGORY, WILLIAM [association copy]
The Second Edition of a Visible Display of Divine Providence
or, The Journal of a Captured Missionary, Designated to The Southern Pacific Ocean, in the Second Voyage of the Ship Duff...
Second edition, published by the Author and Printed by J. Skirven 1801, London. 178pp, 6 plates, facsimile chart of Rio de la Plata bound in at end. 210mm. bound in period marbled boards with modern leather spine and endpapers. An attractive tidy copy. Inscribed by the author to his brother John Gregory.
Gregory's Journal of a Captured Missionary recounts the ill-fated second voyage of the missionary vessel Duff to the South Sea Islands in 1798. First captured by a French privateer who mistook the Duff for a ship taking Governor King to Australia, and then a second time by a Portuguese fleet, the group was forced to return to Lisbon where the missionary voyage was abandoned.
The Second Edition of a Visible Display of Divine Providence
or, The Journal of a Captured Missionary, Designated to The Southern Pacific Ocean, in the Second Voyage of the Ship Duff...
Second edition, published by the Author and Printed by J. Skirven 1801, London. 178pp, 6 plates, facsimile chart of Rio de la Plata bound in at end. 210mm. bound in period marbled boards with modern leather spine and endpapers. An attractive tidy copy. Inscribed by the author to his brother John Gregory.
Gregory's Journal of a Captured Missionary recounts the ill-fated second voyage of the missionary vessel Duff to the South Sea Islands in 1798. First captured by a French privateer who mistook the Duff for a ship taking Governor King to Australia, and then a second time by a Portuguese fleet, the group was forced to return to Lisbon where the missionary voyage was abandoned.
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