[Rarebooks] fs: Dana. Two Years Before the Mast...nicely illustrated edition

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 11299 )  Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882). TWO YEARS BEFORE THE 
MAST. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1911). Illustrated 
edition, Original cloth, Octavo, xiv, 553 pages, color plates by E. Boyd 
Smith. Fine in a Very Good, Price Clipped dust jacket, Jacket in Mylar 
protector.
      A classic of American nautical literature and California history, 
originally published in 1840. Dana shipped around Cape Horn as a common 
sailor aboard a Boston merchant vessel to trade for hides and tallow up and 
down the California coast in 1835-1836. His keen powers of observation and 
narrative skill make this the best account of the hide trade in California 
before the War with Mexico, and a vivid document of the daily life of a 
merchant sailor in the 1830s. Includes descriptive vignettes of San Diego, 
Los Angeles, Monterey, and San Francisco. This edition includes Dana's 
follow-up observations upon his return visit to California in 1859, comments 
by his son "Seventy-Six Years After," appendices on ships sails, spars and 
rigging and extracts from the unofficial log of Andrew B. Amazeen who was 
first mate on board the Alert with Dana on his return from San Diego to 
Boston. Lovely illustrations by Smith. Bound in red cloth over boards with 
black stamped lettering and ornaments on spine, endpaper maps. Prior owner 
embossed monogram at lower fore corner of title page, endpapers mildly 
browned, shallow bumps at spine ends. Jacket has mild browning, a .5" chip 
at top edge of front panel, shallow chips at spine ends. Handsome copy of a 
nice edition....... $50.00
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