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[PIRACY -- NARRATIVES]. 7 Tegg publications. Sufferings of John Turner, chief mate of the country ship Tay, bound for China under the command of William Greig, including the seizure of him and six Lascars in the Cutter....Also a curious account of Peter Serrano, who having escaped from Shipwreck, lived Seven Years on a Sandy Island, on the Coast of Peru. Folding aquatint frontispiece of the taking of the ship. (Minor offset to title). Original printed wrapper (edges a little worn), uncut, cloth case. -- Another copy. Marbled boards, lacking frontispiece. -- Original Account of the Desperate Engagement and Capture of the General Washington, Alexander Boyle, Command, which was attacked by two Barbary Corsairs, up the Mediterranean... Folding aquatint frontispiece (lower margin trimmed, affecting printed caption). Later wrappers (upper cover detached); slipcase. -- Loss of the Wager Man of War, one of Commodore Anson's Squadron, in the year 1744, and the consequent Embarrassments of the Crew...Lacks frontispiece. Original wraps. -- Seizure of the Ship Industry by a Conspiracy...Captivity among the Esquimaux Indians in North America...and 2 others. All 8o. London: Thomas Tegg, ca. 1810. (7)