A voyage to Barbary, for the redemption of captives
Subtitle: performed (in 1720) by the Mathurin-Trinitarian fathers, Fran. Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Bernard
By: Now first Englished from the French original ; with lists of more than 400 slaves ransomed (by the royal bounty of their late and present majesties) from Mequeniz: also very exact draughts of that place, Alcazar, Oran, and its neighbourhood, with maps, &c. To which is subjoined, the History, ancient and modern, of Oran, &c. [by John Morgan?] With a Journal of the Spaniards procedure in those their recent African conquests [by the Abbé Boulet] The whole illustrated with annotations, historical, critical, and explanatory
Contributors: Boyde, Henry; Morgan, J., active 1739; Boulet, abbé; Corbett, Charles, 1710-1752, bookseller; Brindley, John, -1758, bookseller; Jollyffe, John, bookseller; Boreman, Thomas, active 18th century, bookseller; Baker, Samuel, approximately 1711-1778, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed, for Charles Corbett, without Temple-Bar; John Brindley, in New Bond street, John Jolliffe, in St. James's-Street, Thomas Boreman on Ludgate-Hill, and Samuel Baker, in Russel street, Covent-Garden
Published: 1735
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: History; Slavery; Early works to 1800; Trinitarians
Work titles: Voyage pour la rédemption des captifs, aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis
Notes: A translation by Joseph Morgan of Philémon de la Motte's 'Voyage pour la redemption des captifs aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis', which was first published in English in the same year as 'Voyage to Algiers and Tunis, for the redemption of captives'.

The maps and plans by Henry Boyde.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T148818

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.