[Rarebooks] fs: Logbook of the Captain's Clerk

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 9128 )  Sewall, John S[mith]. (1830-1911). THE LOGBOOK OF THE CAPTAIN'S 
CLERK: ADVENTURES IN THE CHINA SEAS.
Bangor: Privately Printed, 1905. First printing, Original cloth, Duodecimo, 
xii, 278 pages, Frontispiece photograph. Very good.
      Memoir by one of the last survivors of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's 
1853-54 mission to open Japan. Sewall was the captain's clerk aboard the 
Saratoga. This is the first edition from 1905. Tissue-guarded frontispiece 
photograph of the U.S.S. Saratoga. Bound in dark green cloth over boards 
with spine and upper board lettered and decorated in white. The lettering on 
the spine is mostly flaked away but remains quite crisp on upper board. 
Clean and sound in binding with a few extremity rubs, shallow bumps to lower 
fore corners. No hinge cracks.    $100.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9128.jpg

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