Extraordinary Hardships and Adventures of Captain David Woodard; and Five Companions, Who Lost Their Vessel, The Resistance, and Afterwards Their Boat, at Sea, Including Their Escape from the Malays, After A Captivity of Near Three Years, and the Horrid Murder of Archibald Millar, One of the Above Party

London: Thomas Tegg, 1808. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. First edition of Extraordinary Hardships and Adventures of Captain David Woodard, published by Thomas Tegg circa 1808.. Octavo, 28pp. 13 additional blank leaves bound in at rear. Bound in three-quarter leather with cloth-covered boards. Title in gilt on spine. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Solid text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. Features a fold-out frontispiece depicting "Capt. Woodard, defending himself from the Treachery of the Malays." (Ferguson, 478). This work is one of forty chapbooks published by Thomas Tegg from 1805 to 1809. All of the small volumes contain narratives of captivity and shipwrecks that took place between 1678 and 1809.
From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023). (Inventory #: 17381)