[Floridiana; Ohio Imprints] Robert Barrow; Jonathan Dickenson

The Shipwreck and Dreadful Sufferings of Robert Barrow, with Divers Other Persons, Amongst the Inhuman Canibals [sic] of Florida; Faithfully related by Jonathan Dickenson, who was concerned therein. To which is added Some Remarks & Observations made by a Person who renounced Deism. Also, The Dying Expressions of some Persons of Eminence & Learning who had embraced the same Principles. [Original title: God's Protecting Providence]

Salem, Ohio: Re-Published by Joshua Shinn. Robert Fee, printer, 1826. Very Good -. Item #47071

Salem, (O.): Re-Published by Joshua Shinn. Robert Fee, printer, 1826. Later Edition. 12mo; contemporary calf over paper-covered boards; 120pp., collated and complete. Cracked along front joint and front board just holding; light general wear and rubbing; contemporary scribblings to preliminaries; female ownership inscription to rear free endpaper; mild spotting throughout; Good to Very Good. 

The first Ohio edition of God's Protecting Providence, originally published in 1699. The work was one of the most popular 18th-century captivity narratives describing a party of Quakers who were shipwrecked near present-day West Palm Beach, robbed and both abused and fed by the local Jobe Indians, before eventually being allowed to pass on to St. Augustine. The text concludes with later religious testimonies from the likes of David Brainerd, Thomas Chalkley, and Francis Guy. We locate only four titles under the Shinn imprint in OCLC, this being the first. 

Ayer 72; see also Sabin 20015, though this edition not mentioned.

Price: $1,000.00