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#006802
Title: Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Artist: Tipyakov Dmitriy
Size: 10.5x6.5x13.5
Size (inches): 4x2.5x5.25
Price : $1150 SOLD!
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Description: This wonderful box has been painted by talented Fedoskino artist Dmitriy Tipyakov! It is called "Peter Blood" and shows a battle ship.
Several words about Peter Blood. The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgewater in Somerset.
The book opens with him attending to his geranium whilst the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth. He wants no part in the rebellion, but whilst attending to some of the rebels wounded at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Peter is arrested. During the Bloody Assizes, he is convicted by the infamous Judge Jeffreys of treason on the grounds that "if any person be in actual rebellion against the King, and another person
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