[Rarebooks] F/S 1819 Shipwreck Narrative
Garry R Austin
austbook at sover.net
Wed Jan 18 18:08:35 EST 2017
We offer for your consideration the following, net to all & postpaid @ $95.
From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438
Anonymous, (A Member Of The Crew). Wonderful Escapes! Containing the
Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Antelope Packet. The Loss of the Lady
Hobart Packet, On An Island Of Ice. The Shipwreck of the Hercules, On
The Coast of Africa. An Account Of An Extraordinary Escape from the
Effects of a Storm in a Journey over the Frozen Sea, In North America.
Dublin: Printed by W. Espy, 1819.
First edition; 24mo., (5.5" x 3.5"), 180pp. Illustrated with an engraved
frontispiece and five additional inserted engraved plates; gray paper
covered boards; spine mostly eroded to underlying cloth, boards detached
but present, book block with preliminaries and following leaves complete
and tight; there is a small embossed stamp on the title page from the
New Bedford Public Library and an accession number but the stamp is very
faint; The vessel the Antelope was in the East Indian Company's
service, commanded by Capt. Henry Wilson, which arrived in Macao in June
1783. Mentions Pelew, Raa Kook, the Oroolong, and events in the China
sea region.
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