[Rarebooks] FS: Autobiography of notorious scoundrel Major Semple Lisle. London: 1800

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Semple Lisle, James George. THE LIFE OF MAJOR J. G. SEMPLE LISLE; Containing 
a Faithful Narrative of His Alternate Vicissitudes of Splendor and Misfortune. 
Written by Himself. The Whole Interspersed with Interesting Anecdotes, and 
Authentic Accounts of Important Public Transactions. The Second Edition. London: 
Printed for W. Stewart. 1800. xxii,(2),382pp. With the half-title. Engraved 
frontispiece portrait. Orig. boards, uncut, paper spine considerably rubbed & 
its paper label mostly illegible, but hinges still sound. Bookplates on front 
pastedown & front free endpaper.     $850.00 (trade discount allowed)
This 1800 “Second Edition” is exactly the same as the 1799 edition, but with 
the addition of the errata leaf. Semple Lisle was a notorious scoundrel who 
was sent to Australia, but when a mutiny broke out on the ship, ended up in 
South America. Earlier he had served in the English army in America during the 
Revolutionary War. At the time of publication he was a serving a term in prison. 
Sabin. 41241; Ferguson 317.

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