A short account of Algiers, and of its several wars against Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, and other powers of Europe, from the usurpation of Barbarossa and the invasion of the Emperor Charles V. to the present time. : With a concise view of the origin of the rupture between Algiers and the United States. : [Four lines from Buchanan] : To which is added, a copious appendix, containing letters from Captains Penrose, M'Shane, and sundry other American captives, with a description of the treatment those prisoners experience.

50, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 24 cm. (8vo) ; Attributed to Mathew Carey by Evans. ; Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint. ; Map of the Barbary Coast signed: J.T. Scott, sculp. ; "Extracts from a 'Poem on the happiness of America,' by Colonel Humphrys."--p. 46-50. ; Bookseller's advertisement, p. [51-52].