Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27 on the coast of Massachusetts, in which were lost more than 90 vessels and more than 200 dismasted, driven ashore, or otherwise damaged ...

Awful calamities, or, The shipwrecks of December 1839 : being a full account of the dreadful hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21 & 27 on the coast of Massachusetts, in which were lost more than 90 vessels and more than 200 dismasted, driven ashore, or otherwise damaged ...

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Imprint:	Boston : Press of J. Howe, 1840.
Description:	24 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hurricanes. Shipwrecks. Shipwrecks -- Massachusetts. Hurricanes -- Massachusetts. Massachusetts -- History -- 1775-1865. Massachusetts. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8286425

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Varying Form of Title:	Awful calamities Shipwrecks of December 1839 Shipwrecks of December 1839, and burning of the Lexington
Notes:	First edition. Issued in pictorial wrappers. Checklist Amer. imprints 40-339

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