[Rarebooks] F/S 19th Century U. S. Navy Ship's Bible

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid 
@$75.00.

From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

(Bible In English) The Holy Bible, Containing The Old And New 
Testaments; Translated Out Of The Original Tongues; And With The Former 
Translations Diligently Compared And Revised. New York: American Bible 
Society, 1874.                                                          
                                                                         
                       $75.00
Octavo; pp; I; 1009; Family Record, II; 316; Full brown leather 
decorated in blind, all edges gilt, spine and upper board lettered in 
gilt, brown coated endpapers; hinges started at top of upper board and 
at both ends of lower board, still holding very tightly, a solid copy, 
edge wear, overall a good or better copy. In gilt on upper board, the 
following; "U. S. Ship Portsmouth Presented By The Brooklyn City Bible 
Society." This edition is known as the American Bible Society's  "Small 
Pica Octavo", it originally appeared in 1855. Hills #1587.

The second USS Portsmouth was a wooden sloop of war in the U. S. Navy in 
service during the mid-to-late 19th century. She was designed by Josiah 
Barker  and built in Kittery Maine on the lines of a French-built 
privateer. She was described as an improvement over the USS Saratoga 
built in the same shipyard a year earlier. The Portsmouth was launched 
at the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 23 October 1843 and commissioned on 10 
November 1844, with Commander John Berrien Montgomery in command.

South America, Pacific, 1865--1878
Continuing her varied career after the American Civil War, Portsmouth 
served as quarantine vessel at New York, 1866--67; cruised off Brazil 
and Africa, 1869--71; carried relief personnel to Brazil in early 1872; 
and participated in survey assignments in the eastern Pacific, 1873--74. 
In 1875 she conducted a cruise off the west coast of Latin America and 
on 14 July 1878 was decommissioned as a cruiser and assigned as a 
training ship for boys...
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