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USA: Ye Galleon Press. Good. 1967. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. 161 pages. Copy #817 of 1522. Black and white illustrations. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Gilt-decorated front board. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 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 Vancouver Island .

New York: Daniel Fanshaw, 1816. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4 x 7in. 298pp. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in three quarters leather over paper-covered boards. Title label in gilt. FAIR. Shows loss from the extremities and paper boards, preliminaries lightly toned and handled, slightly over-opened at the front hinge, endpapers with a spot of discoloration, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.

Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co, 1849. Binding rubbed at extremities; some spotting internally. 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. 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.").

Sm. Middletown: Seth Richards, 1815. Sm. 8vo, 204 pp. With an engraved frontispiece of the ship Boston being taken over by the natives. Original calf, red morocco label, a bit worn but quite sound. Early ink signature at the front of A. Van Vechten the politician and lawyer. § Second edition (so stated at the end), presumably thus because of Jewitt's "Journal Kept at Nootka Sound" (Boston, 1807). A fascinating account of the massacre of all but two of the crew of the "Boston" and how they escaped by engineering a switch with another vessel that had arrived some 3 years later. Jewitt provides a detailed narrative that covers all areas of life in the tribe's village, including their physical appearance, clothing, buildings, food, music, ceremonies and religion. Hill 887: "The work gives many particulars concerning the life and habits of the Indians of Vancouver Island, together with a three-page vocabulary and the war-song of the Nootka tribesmen. The indigenous people here referred to as Nootka are… Read More