MARTIN, Maria. History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin, who was six years a slave in Algiers: two of which she was confined in a dark and dismal dungeon, loaded with irons...Boston: W Creary, n.d. [1807?]. (205 x 122 mm.) Woodcut portrait frontispiece of a revealingly-draped Mrs. Martin in chains. Contemporary tan wrappers (some offset title), cloth case. FIRST EDITION . A classic of the captivity genre inspired by the Barbary wars, the present lot is based on an earlier Algerine and went through numerous editions. It is understandably rare with the frontispiece intact. Wright 1208a.