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A short account of Algiers : containing a description of the climate of that country, of the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and of their several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and the other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbaross and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time; with a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. [Four lines from Buchanan].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Contributor:
Scott, J. T. (Joseph T.), engraver.
Parker, John, printer.
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, bookseller.
Humphreys, David, 1752-1818.
Series:
Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
International relations.
Algeria--History--1516-1830.
Algeria.
History.
Algeria--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Algeria.
United States.
United States--Poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Poems -- 1794.
Maps -- Africa, North.
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 color map ; 8⁰
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by J. Parker for M. Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, January 8, 1794.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans.
Map of the Barbary Coast engraved by Joseph T. Scott.
"The following lines are extracted from a 'Poem on the happiness of America' by Colonel Humphrey."--p. 45-46.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Cited in:
Evans, 26732
Sabin, 80578
English Short Title Catalog, W3463.
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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