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Authentic Account of the Recent Loss of the Travers…Also, the Shipwreck of The Sparrow-Hawk (London,

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Authentic Account of the Recent Loss of the Travers…Also, the Shipwreck of The Sparrow-Hawk (London,
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Authentic Account of the Recent Loss of the Travers…Also, the Shipwreck of The Sparrow-Hawk (London, 1809). 28 pp, 4¼" x 7". A small, coverless pamphlet with beautifully hand-colored foldout frontispiece showing several lifeboats and crew around the sinking ship, the (very brief) story of the sinking of the British East Indiaman Travers on November 7, 1809, as well as the wrecking of the Dutch East Indiaman Sparrow Hawk off China on August 1, 1653, printed by Thomas Tegg, III, in excellent condition (just missing the cover).