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A short account of Algiers, [electronic resource] : 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].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algeria--History--1516-1830.
- Algeria.
- Algeria--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Algeria.
- United States.
- United States--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1794.
- Maps -- Africa, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2], 46 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ) 1 col. map ;
- Other Title:
- Short account of Algiers,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by J. Parker for M. Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, January 8, 1794.
- 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.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 26732
- Sabin, 80578
- English Short Title Catalog, W3463.
- OCLC:
- 510883360
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