[PARKER, Lucretia]. Piratical Barbarity or the Female Captive. Comprising. The particulars of the capture of the English Sloop Eliza-Annand the horrid massacre of the unfortunate crew And Of the unparalleled sufferings of Mrs. Lucretia Parker, a passenger. New York: S. Walker for G.G. Parker, [1825].

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[PARKER, Lucretia]. Piratical Barbarity or the Female Captive. Comprising. The particulars of the capture of the English Sloop Eliza-Annand the horrid massacre of the unfortunate crew And Of the unparalleled sufferings of Mrs. Lucretia Parker, a passenger. New York: S. Walker for G.G. Parker, [1825].

8^o, 36pp. (A few leaves at end with edge tears from rough opening, minor dampstain, title and last leaf neatly guarded.) Modern brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine.

FIRST EDITION, a tall copy of a widely popular Caribbean pirate captivity, with pious "moral reflections" by Parker on her miraculous deliverance from "wretches of the most frightful and ferocious appearance-blood-thirsty monsters." Shoemaker 21781; Sabin 58670.