Binding: Unbound
Publisher: Wells & Lilly, Boston
Date Published: 1815
Description: VG. 8vo. 28pp, very minor toning, salvaged from a damaged issue of the North American Review, Volume I, No. 2, July, 1815. A contemporary review of the rare, suppressed, two-volume 1815 first edition of Porter's account, including 24 pages of extracts from the text. See Howes P484, Sabin 64219, and Forbes Hawaii 558 for book reference. Review is very scarce in itself as at its height of circulation the North American Review did not reach 3000 copies. Housed in protective mylar report cover with ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780870213311ISBN:0870213318
Description: Fine. Thick octavo, blue cloth covered boards with royal blue title panel and gilt title, decoartion and border. Blue silk ribbon marker. 646 pp. plus a note on the editors. A faithful reproduction of the rare 1815 second edition of this important classic report of the voyage of Captain David Porter around the Cape of Good Hope to attack British shipping in the Pacific off of Chile. A source for Melville's novel Typee. Faithfully reproduced by the Naval Institute Press, including reproductions ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
Date Published: 1986-06
ISBN-13:9780870213311ISBN:0870213318
Description: Very Good. Used, very good; No writing or marks in text; Previous owners embossed stamp on front end paper; Sewn ribbon bookmark; Now sealed in Protective Shrinkwrap. read more
Description: Very good. Naval Institute Press, 1986, 646 pages, a nice hardcover, tight and square, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear, endpaper torn. read more
Edition: 2nd Ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley & Halsted, New York
Date Published: 1822
Description: Very Good in None jacket. Hardcover. 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates, but lacks the map, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some copies describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Nice copy. read more
Edition: 2nd Ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley & Halstead, N. Y.
Date Published: 1822
Description: Near Fine. 8vo. Hardcover. Modern spine and contemporary paper boards; black spine label printed in gilt; new endpapers. lxxvi + 246; 256 pp. Illustrated with 7 engraved plates; folding map; folding chart; frontispiece portrait engraving of Porter. Title continues: To Which Is Now Added, The Transactions At Valparaiso, From the Period Of The Author's Arrival Until The Capture Of The Essex; The Fate Of The Party Left At Madison's Island, Under Lieut. (Now Major) Gamble; And An Introduction, In ... read more
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