Barrow Robert Jonathan Dickenson (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Full leather recently rebound with foxing thus very good. Considered a classic at an affordable price. Book.

Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Salem, (O.): Re-Published by Joshua Shinn. Robert Fee, printer, 1826. Later Edition.12mo; contemporary calf over paper-covered boards; 120pp., collated and complete. Cracked along front joint and front board just holding; light general wear and rubbing; contemporary scribblings to preliminaries; female ownership inscription to rear free endpaper; mild spotting throughout; Good to Very Good. The first Ohio edition ofGod's Protecting Providence,originally published in 1699. The work was one of the most popular 18th-century captivity narratives describing aparty of Quakers who were shipwrecked near present-day West Palm Beach, robbed and both abused and fed by the local Jobe Indians, before eventually being allowed to pass on to St. Augustine. The text concludes with later religious testimonies from the likes of David Brainerd, Thomas Chalkley, and Francis Guy. We locate only four titles under the Shinn imprint in OCLC, this being the first. Ayer 72; see also Sabin 20015, though this edition not mentioned.