God's Protecting Providence ... Evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of Robert Barrow ... and Also from the Devouring Jaws of the Inhuman Cannibals of Florida

London: James Phillips, 1790. Early reprint. Full morocco leather. Very Good. 12mo (10 x 16 cm.) Pp. xiv - 136. Marbled endpapers. Exquisitely rebound by Sanford in plum morocco with gilt backstrip; inner dentelles. With a couple light scuffs on rear board, else a bright, handsome copy. A later edition of this early and perhaps most famous American shipwreck narratives, first published in 1699 -- a book that was long thought to be the first published in Philadelphia.Barrow was a Quaker missionary enroute from Jamaica to Philadelphia when his ship, the Reformation was wrecked off the Florida coast. Survivors were captured by Indians before eventually making their way to Charleston. Although reprinted many times, early editions are scarce: Howes lists this edition as "aa," indicating considerable scarcity. See HOWES D-317; AYER 70. (Inventory #: 9090)