In the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue the book is not checked as present. It is included in a later manuscript list headed
Congress Library Books Missing, and it is not known when it was delivered to the Library.
William Ray, 1771-1827, one of the Algerine captives, gives his full biography in the
Exordium.
Of Litchfield County’s mud and clay / was form’d the flesh of William Ray / and Salisbury the very place. He went to sea in 1802, and in 1803 joined the U.S. frigate
Philadelphia. The ship ran aground off Tripoli, and the officers and crew were made prisoners, being treated with great cruelty until
June 3, 1805, when articles of peace were signed and the men returned home. His verses won for Ray the honor of laureate for
the next Fourth of July.
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178
Etat de Tripoly, Tunis et Algers.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 83, as above.
[
La FAYE, Jean Baptiste de.]
Etat des royaumes de Barbare, Tripoly, Tunis et Alger, contenant l’histoire naturelle et politique de ce pays; la manière
dont les Turcs y traitent les esclaves, etc.; avec la tradition de l’Eglise pour le rachat et le soulagement des captifs
.
Rouen:
G. Behourt,
1703.
First Edition. 12mo. No copy of this book was located for collation.
Barbier III, 297.
Quérard IV, page 390.
Gay, page 41.
Not in Rouard de Card.
On Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue this book is entered with the price
3 [livres].
Jean Baptiste de La Faye, fl. 1703, French author, was a mathurin friar.
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179
Voiage dans les etats barbaresques.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 85, as above.
Voyage dans les États Barbaresques de Maroc, Alger, Tunis et Tripoly; ou Lettres d’un des Captifs qui viennent d’être rachetés
par MM. les Chanoines réguliers de la Sainte-Trinité; suivies d’une Notice sur leur rachat, & du Catalogue de leurs noms .
. .
A
Paris: chez
Guillot,
1785.
First Edition. 12mo. 102 leaves; on 4 leaves at the end, with separate pagination, is a
Liste des trois cents treize Esclaves François rachetés à Alger en 1785 . . .
Playfair,
Bibliography of the Barbary States, 117.
Not in Barbier.
Rouard de Card, page 15.
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180
Ludolphus’s history of Ethiopia.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 173, as above.
LUDOLF,
Hiob.
A new history of Ethiopia. Being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia. Vulgarly, though erroneously,
called the Empire of Prester John. In four books . . . illustrated with copper plates. By the learned Job Ludolphus . . . The
second edition. To which is added, A new and exact map of the country: as also, a preface . . . with the life of Gregorius Abba;
and the author’s opinion of some other writers concerning Ethiopia. Translated out of his learned manuscript Commentary on
this history. Made
English by J. P., gent.
London: Printed for
Samuel Smith, bookseller,
1684.
