Search Results: a narrative of four voyages to by morrell capt benjamin

NY., 1853.. b/w frontis. Morrell was a resourceful sealer who pioneered many South Seas routes. His narrative is of great interest and is one of the earliest first-hand records of many South Sea islands... this work is the source from which Edgar Allen Poe derived his famous Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. However, he was also known as the biggest liar in the Pacific. - Hill 1186. Judd 130. Jenkins p. 129. Howes M-818. The book was first published in 1832. There was a subsequent edition in 1841, and then this one, all with the same pagination. Worldcat shows this to be the scarcest of the three, with only five libraries holding copies. Small oval blindstamp on title page. Remains of card pocket on back free endpaper. Otherwise a good copy, bound in quarter calf over boards.

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. George Marston. FIRST EDITION USA 1832. Rebound in dark brown calf with gilt lettering and bands spine, raised bands spine forming 5 compartments, new brown EPs. Red seminary library stamp on title page. No other library marks on any pages. Clean covers, missing much of the gilt in the spine littering, sold binding, complete with short-ttile page and with four pages of publisher's ads at end. Title page is heavily embrowned and has a tideline. Subsequent 30 pages have increasingly faint tideline in upper outside corner. Pages 161 to 176 have heavy embrowning. Most other pages are bright but some have light scattered foxing (not heavy). The book measures 222mm tall x 150mm, and has 492 + [4] pages, b/w frontispiece. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

New York: J. and J. Harper, 1832. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition 1st Issue. 4p.l.,xxvii,492pp. + 4pp. ads pp. Octavo. Bound in half polished calf and marbled boards. Rebacked at an early date. Corner moderately worn and bumped. Top and bottom of the text block moderately soiled. Half title. Frontispiece portrait of the author. The text is browned with some scattered light foxing, but less than normal. The paper is still flexible and crisp. Bookplate on the front pastedown. A very good copy. Rosove 232.A1; Spence 814. Account of an American sailor who went to sea in 1811, was first mate on the 'Wasp' in the Antarctic in 1821, and later in 1822-23 as her Captain, during which he made a controversial survey of East Antarctica waters, claiming to have reached 70 14 S in the Weddell Sea and reporting new land 'New South Greenland' (later disproved). He visited Islas Diego Ramirez, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands, then Georgia; Bouvetoya, where he landed and… Read More