[Rarebooks] fs: Irish escape Australian penal colony, scarce

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10256 )  Pease, Z[ephania]. W[alter]. THE CATALPA EXPEDITION.
New Bedford: George S. Anthony, 1897. First printing, Original cloth, 
Duodecimo, viii, 215 pages, black and white plates. .
      Story of the rescue of six Irish prisoners by an American ship captain 
from New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Fenians were held by the British at the 
penal colony in Freemantle, Australia. Captain George S. Anthony, commander 
of the bark Catalpa, was hired by Clan-na-Gael to rescue the men. Bound in 
dark green cloth over boards with gilt spine and upper board titles, gilt 
illustration of the Catalpa on upper board, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded 
frontispiece photo of Capt. Anthony. This copy lacks the front free 
endpaper. Binding shows minor extremity wear with a some chipping and 
fraying at spine ends, short tears along joint ends, rubs at corner tips, 
shallow bumps at corner tips. Rather scarce book in the original edition. 
$175.00
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