Item #410016 Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinion of the Natives. John R. JEWITT.
Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinion of the Natives
Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinion of the Natives

Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinion of the Natives

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co., 1849. 12mo. 166 pages. Engraved frontispiece of "The Ship Boston Taken by the Savages at Nootka Sound," small cuts in text. Contemporary sheep, leather spine label. Binding rubbed at extremities; some spotting internally. Item #410016

Later edition (the first was n.d., but before 1815). Pilling 1987; Sabin 36123 ("A popular book, compiled from Jewitt’s “Oral Relations.” by Richard Alsop. Another edition edited by S. G. Goodrich, “Peter Parley.” 12mo, pp. 259. It affords us many particulars concerning the life and habits of the aborigines. A vocabulary of the Nootka language occupies four pages.").

Price: $300.00

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