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[The Adventures of Robert Drury. ] Shipwreck of the Degrave East Indiaman.Vide Page 12. [and] Mr R. Drury and Rer Ambarroch's Wife and Daughter.
T. Clark sc. Edin.
[Edinburgh? c.1805.]
Two scarce engravings. each c.140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed.
Two scenes from an edition of the diary of Robert Drury (1687- between 1743-50), an English sailor who was shipwrecked aged seventeen on Madagascar in 1701, spending the next fifteen years as a slave of a native king. Rer Ambarroch was a local prince whose family Drury captures for his master. Drury escaped and arrived back in London in 1717, after which he became a slave trader, pirate and, finally, a porter at East India House. His account was first published in 1729, probably ghost-written by Daniel Defoe. Although some detail is cribbed from Etienne de Flacourt' History of Madagascar (1658) there is enough to convince modern scholars that much is first hand.
[Ref: 45671] £280.00
[Edinburgh? c.1805.]
Two scarce engravings. each c.140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed.
Two scenes from an edition of the diary of Robert Drury (1687- between 1743-50), an English sailor who was shipwrecked aged seventeen on Madagascar in 1701, spending the next fifteen years as a slave of a native king. Rer Ambarroch was a local prince whose family Drury captures for his master. Drury escaped and arrived back in London in 1717, after which he became a slave trader, pirate and, finally, a porter at East India House. His account was first published in 1729, probably ghost-written by Daniel Defoe. Although some detail is cribbed from Etienne de Flacourt' History of Madagascar (1658) there is enough to convince modern scholars that much is first hand.
[Ref: 45671] £280.00