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| 76. | Manby, George William. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO GREENLAND IN THE YEAR 1821. Lon. 1822. 4to. b/w litho plates, some folding, handcolored folding map, b/w ills. vii, 143 pp. First edition. Account of a Greenland whaling voyage taken with Scoresby aboard the Baffin into the northern Greenland Sea. Manby’s narrative includes much whaling activity and description of Arctic wildlife. The book also contains an appendix in which Manby describes a gun-harpoon of his own invention, and its superiority over older harpoons. This work is especially notable for its lively and well-executed lithograph illustrations depicting whaling operations. Arctic Bib. 10844. Jenkins p. 123. Bound in original boards, rebacked. This was the copy of American statesman Gouvernor Morris, and it contains his handsomely engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. Unfortunately, it is lacking a plate, and only contains 19 of 20 whaling scenes. The folding colored map is in excellent condition, fresh and bright, and the rest of the book is in nice condition, with only minor foxing. $1250 See Illustration |
| 77. | Manuscript. “BARK WAVERLY IN ACCOUNT WITH CREW. WILLIAM H. VINAL, MASTER. SAILED APRIL 26, 1859. ARRIVED MAY 1863.” Folio. 96 pp. about 75 pages of manuscript entries. The Waverly was a 327 ton New Bedford whaler owned by David B. Kempton. She spent 4 years in the Indian and Pacific oceans and, according to Starbuck, returned 1550 barrels sperm oil, 756 whale oil, and 1200 pounds bone. However a penciled note on the front pastedown of this book reads, “900 sp, 400 wh, 3500 bone.” This book is a detailed record of the purchases of each of 34 officers and crewmen who served aboard her during her voyage. Dates of purchases track the dates of service of these men, and the lists of things they bought tell stories of their own. Many of the men bought thread, for example, to do their own sewing, but only Elijah Howland was a knitter. And how strapped for cash was Antonio Enos, who started the voyage buying damaged jacket, drawers and socks? Pages clean and legible. Bound in old quarter sheep over marbled boards, showing some wear. Unusual $1250 |
| 78. | Manuscript. EIGHT LETTERS FROM WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE TO PHILADELPHIA MERCHANT WILLIAM JONES, (FUTURE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY) 1807-6 AND 1811. These letters were written in the periods after the Barbary Wars and before the War of 1812, when financial pressures forced Bainbridge to go on furlough from the Navy and take up commercial activities, probably for the firm of Jones & Clark in Philadelphia. William Jones, the Recipient, was later Secretary of the Navy. The first three letters are written to Jones in Philadelphia from London at the end of July 1806. Bainbridge is shopping for chronometers and other nautical instruments on behalf of Jones, and his letters discuss various instrument makers and prices in considerable detail. Two of these letters are clean. The third has some tears and stains, but is legible and complete. Bainbridge’s signature is clear and strong in each of them. The 1807 letter is from Bainbridge in Princeton, asking Jones to sell his chronometer for him. Bainbridge says he has “received a letter from Washington saying, ‘if your chronometer is not too high we will take it.’” but he tells Jones he’d rather have it sold in Philadelphia. This letter is chipped at the top with loss of date, but is otherwise clean, with Bainbridge’s signature clear. The remaining letters date from 1811, when Bainbridge was sailing the merchant ship Lion to and from St. Petersburg. The first of these is written from Newark as Bainbridge proceeds to New York to take command of the merchant ship Lion. He discusses the difficulties of obtaining his freight and refers to the broker as “a mean unprincipled fellow.” The last three are from St. Petersburg and London. They discuss business conditions, give a detailed account of the world political situation, especially as it effects trade, and enumerate cargo shipments. All four of these have edge chipping and tears with some slight loss, but Bainbridge’s signature is clear on each. Letters from Bainbridge, particularly later in his career, sometimes appear in the marketplace, but those documenting his brief merchant career are quite unusual. The lot of eight letters $1250 |
| 79. | Manuscript. ESSAI SUR UNE NOUVELLE METHODE DE SIGNAUX. “De jour et de Nuit, presente a Viconte de Marigny... Vice Admiral, Commandant de la Marine au Port de Brest.” A beautifully penned presentation of a new method of signals with an explanatory introduction and complete “tableaux de signaux” each charted with combinations of flags representing various vocabularies. The 97 pages of text display 10 times 10 possibilities of flags to create the 100 word vocabulary on each page. The introduction has a small chart with 24 hand colored flags, each identified by a number which is later used in the combinations of flags. In his introduction the author of this original work speaks of other systems of signaling that were in existence prior to 1813, and we assume the manuscript dates from that era. Bound in original calf over boards. A lovely manuscript. $3750 See Illustration |
| 80. | Manuscript. LOG OF THE SHIP PERUVIAN 1868-1869 Small 4to., about 150 pp. manuscript entries. The Peruvian departed Hong Kong and sailed to Manila, then Indonesia, and into the Indian Ocean toward Adelaide, where the log breaks off. The log resumes a year later, in August, 1869, when the ship departs Japan for Hong Kong. They reach port in September, lay over until January 1870, when they headed back toward Manila, through the Sunda Islands and across the Pacific, presumably toward Boston or New York. This was a hard working merchantman, and her captain was much concerned with navigation and rate of travel. His entries concentrate on navigation. “Note from my own experience: I am confident that when running thru the SE trades we go too far to the southward to run up our longitude... & my only reason for keeping so far south has been a leaky ship at this season altho thus far I consider I have made as good as the average for the month with sharp ships.” Indeed, he’s constantly comparing his and the ship’s chronometers, keeping track of the day’s progress (some days over 200 miles) and most interestingly, working out his position right in the log rather than on scrap paper. This was rarely done because it takes up a great deal of room, but obviously this captain thought it worth recording. In fact, this log is more a record of open ocean travel and navigation, as if the captain were fine-tuning his routes for various passages. Technically interesting. Bound in contemporary cloth over marbled boards. $750 |
| 81. | Manuscript. ONE PAGE LETTER, SIGNED. DAVID PORTER, 1836. An interesting letter from Porter in San Stephano, old Turkey, to Robert Treat Paine of the Mass. Horticultural Society. Porter thanks Paine for an earlier letter and apologizes for not sending specimens to the Society. “Nothing but my protracted sickness has, for so long a period, prevented my communicating to it whatever of interest I have found in this country, and which I hope yet to do if my health should permit.” At this time in his increasingly troubled career, Porter was the charge d’affaires in Turkey. Presumably he had a residence in San Stephano, and had retreated there on account of his health problems - yellow fever and angina. After his death in 1843, his remains were kept there prior to their return to the US. This letter is in a clerk’s hand, Signed by Porter. VG $300 |
| 82. | Manuscript - Robert Fulton. TYPESCRIPT OF A BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT FULTON WITH MANUSCRIPTS AND OFFPRINTS OF OTHER SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, MOSTLY PERTAINING TO EARLY SUBMARINES. This is a typescript of an unpublished work entitled “Mr. Fulton” by historian David Whittet Thomson. It is several hundred pages in length, contained in two thick binders with illustrations from historical sources and manuscripts by Fulton in facsimile. While attention is given to Fulton’s personal life, this scholarly work also examines Fulton’s designs of submarines and steamboats. Apparently it was never published, being unlocated in OCLC or any of the internet book databases. Additionally there are three more thick binders containing dozens of manuscripts and offprints of scholarly articles by Thomson which appeared in such periodicals as American Neptune and Naval Institute Proceedings. These are almost all about early submarines and diving technology. A great deal of scholarly research is presented here. The lot $500 |
| 83. | Manuscript - U.S.S. Independence JOURNAL OF A CRUIZE IN THE U.S.S. INDEPENDENCE COMM. WM. BAINBRIDGE’S FLAG SHIP CAPT. WM. M. CRANE COMMANDER FROM BOSTON JULY 2ND 1815. Small square 4to. 44 pp. manuscript entries. The Independence, first ship-of-the-line commissioned in the U.S. Navy, had been launched in June 1814 and was stationed with the Constitution to protect the approaches to Boston Harbor. Then, in 1815, “Wearing the broad pennant of Commodore William Bainbridge, and under the command of Captain William Crane, she led her squadron from Boston 3 July 1815 to deal with the piratical acts of the Barbary Powers against American merchant commerce.” (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.) The mission was a success and the squadron returned in November of that year, having impressed the Bashaw of Tripoli with the might of the American fleet. This is the original log of that voyage, kept aboard the Independence, probably by one of Crane’s officers. The entries keep detailed track of position, shipboard evolutions, ships sighted, weather and sea conditions, landfalls, training drills, and unusual events and news, such as this entry from July 23rd 1815. “Lowered down the boat & boarded the ship Francisco from Hamburg bound to Havana gave information of a Great Battle between Bounaparte (sic) and the Allies. Former defeated with great loss.” This, of course, would have been Waterloo. On August 1st they learned from another vessel that Decatur had captured part of the Algerine Squadron and had established a peace agreement. On August 5, “Lost John Driscoll (2.g. [gunner]) overboard. hove too & lowered the boat down. could not save him.” The next day they were in port on the Spanish coast, and a full page port entry documents their week-long stay there. The next portion of the journal gives some detailed descriptions of the coast as they head toward Algiers. They made Tripoli on August 26, and on the 27th and 28th they “exercised the great guns” no doubt for the Algerians’ benefit. On Sept. 1 the journal keeper draws a recognition sketch of the distinctive shape of the island of Linosa off the north African coast. When the squadron put into the Bay of Tunis on Sept. 5th, they confirmed that “Com. Decatur had been there and settled all differences.” Perhaps anxious to keep the peace, “Comm. Bainbridge did not allow the officers to go ashore.” As they sailed down the Mediterranean, another sailor died. On the 14th they met other American ships at Malaga, where they took on water and provisions and made ready to return home - which they did on Sept. 26th after liberty and some sight seeing. On October 3 they were in convoy with Decatur’s squadron, including the Macedonian and the Constellation. They reached Gibraltar on Oct. 6th and Charles Ridgely assumed command. They crossed the Atlantic in company with Macedonian, Congress, Boxer, Chippewa, Saranac, Fire Fly, Sparkle and Spit Fire, and put into Newport on November 15th. Bound in original calf over marbled boards. Entries clean and legible. A historic document. $7500 See Illustration |
| 84. | Manuscript - Whaling Log. LOG BOOK OF SHIP BARCLAY OF NEW BEDFORD, JOSEPH GRINNELL MASTER DEC. 11TH 1843. (AND) LOG BOOK OF WHALESHIP BARCLAY 1844-1848. Folio. Unpaginated. Approx. 175 pp. manuscript entries. The Barclay was a tough little 281 ton whaleship with a long and distinguished history. According to Fairburn, she was launched in 1793 and broken up in 1859. She was captured by the British in the War of 1812, then recaptured during Porter’s famous Pacific cruise and, according to Emmons, was given back “to her former captain, J. Randall, who continued to cruise in company.” - (See Emmons “statistical History” p. 65. ) Her 1843 voyage has an interesting back story. They sailed out of New Bedford on the 11th of December bound for the Pacific. By the end of February things began going bad. “Richard Loper jamed his finger in the hole. (Took off one joint.)” On March 7, “Captain Grinnell quite unwell.” Then as they rounded the Horn a few weeks later, more of the crew got sick. On April 4, “Cooper, steward & Devereau sick/off duty.” Bad weather and a sickly crew kept them stuck off Cape Horn for the better part of a month. The cook joined the sick list. Two days later, the journal keeper wrote, “I am very unwell off duty.” Next day, “Our situation is very unpleasant. 1st officer very sick and the steward very sick and more than one half of the ships company complaining and my self far from being well. I am very much perplex as I see no prospect of getting to the North.” On April 27th so many of the crew were sick with the mysterious illness that the writer decided to go home “for the safety of the ship and those on board.” With the captain and first mate down the writer, apparently the second mate, was in command of the ship. Thus, he wrote “I have consulted with my officers...” The origin of the illness is a mystery. They went aboard a French bark early in February and “spoke” several vessels after that. But it is not clear when the fateful contact was made. In any event, Captain and crew survived, but just barely, and they made it home by July 10. On July 19 they were in the stream bound for the Pacific once again, with a new owner, a new captain - Charles Mann - and presumably resupplied and with a healthy crew. This time they made it into the Pacific, fished the usual grounds, gammed with other ships, had crew troubles, and did all the things whalers were expected to do, all recorded in excellent detail with whaling stamps. It was a long voyage, lasting until the first week in 1850. According to Starbuck they returned with 415 barrels of sperm oil and sold 400 more during their voyage. This journal ends short of that, in port at Hobart in May, 1848. There was a mutinous work stoppage just at that time. Police came aboard and hauled the bad eggs away (they are named in the journal) and sentenced them “too the house of correction for too calender Months.” Less than a month later, the malcontents were back aboard, and the journal ends - but not before setting the record straight. A tally on the final page show much more oil loaded than Starbuck records, and judging by the whale stamps they’d landed 850 barrels by 1848. Detailed entries, well written, accompanied by several different types of whale stamps. An excellent, though incomplete, log with several interesting stories to tell. $5000 See Illustration |
| 85. | Manuscript - Whaling Log. “LOG AND JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE KEPT ON BOARD SHIP BARCLAY FROM NEW BEDFORD TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. COMMANDED BY CAPT. A.P TABER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1852. “ Folio. Unpaginated. Approx. 175 pp. manuscript entries. This 1852 trip was the Barclay’s next to last, and it made sense that at such an advanced age she was restricted to relatively short Atlantic voyage. Despite her 55 years of service the old girl did pretty well, sending home 141 sperm and returning with 587 barrels of sperm oil, 365 whale and 2400 bone. The log is tidy and complete, methodically recording position, shipboard evolutions, vessels sighted, landfalls, etc. It is also a tad laconic, and its keeper devoted as much space to the endless succession of weather as he did to exciting chases and kills. Still, it’s all here. On July 10th, three days out, they killed their first sperm whale. They made the Azores by August, then headed south, stopping at Ascension and the western coast of Africa. After they’d been out for about a year things began to unravel in the usual way. A crewman named Thomas Melville conspired to instigate a mutiny and was put in irons. A month later the steward refused his duty and was also put in irons. Interestingly, the journal heading in the latter part of the voyage changes from “cruising for sperm whales” to “cruising for right whales in the South Atlantic.” An excellent example of its type, with a nice stationer’s bookplate from Charles Taber & Co., complete and in excellent condition. Sorry, no whale stamps. Bound in original calf over marbled boards, a little rubbed, but securely bound. $3000 |
| 86. | Mariner William, and John Martin. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVES OF THE TONGA ISLANDS, IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. WITH AN ORIGINAL GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE. COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM THE EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS OF MR. WILLIAM MARINER. Lon. 1820. b/w frontis, folding map, printed music. lvi, 444; 344 pp. plus unpaginated grammar and vocabulary. Mariner set out from England on a whaling and privateering voyage as a boy in 1815. The crew mutinied at Tonga and then was murdered by the natives, Mariner being the only survivor. He was adopted by a chief and lived with the natives for 4 years. Martin befriended the youngster on his return to England and recorded the story. This is the second, and best, edition of the book, which first appeared the year before. This edition contains a folding map, and enlarged introduction and a corrected vocabulary. Hill 1076. Vol. II contains printed music, including tune and words for the “Oola.” Very nicely bound in old decorated calf over marbled boards. $750 |
| 87. | Maury, M. F. THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA. NY. 1855. b/w folding plates. xxiv-273 pp. First edition of an important book, “now recognized as the first textbook of modern oceanography. The sea, for the first time, was here viewed as the subject matter of a distinct branch of science with problems of its own. The importance of these problems Maury discussed in engaging and stimulating fashion.” - DAB. Signed on front endpaper by Gouverneur Kemble Warren, a Civil War general. With an 1854 letter from one of Maury’s sisters to another, covering family gossip, in which she says, “Br. Matt is very low; worn to a shadow, I hear, so I can’t give you an answer about the book yet.” She is referring, of course to “The Physical Geography of the Sea.” Pastedowns discolored from binder’s glue, as is typical, otherwise a very nice copy showing only light wear. $700 |
| 88. | Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA. Bos. 1942. b/w plates, fldg. maps. 2 vols. xlv, 448; 445 pp. First edition of Morison’s classic study of Columbus in its complete form, with notes, maps and material not present in the single volume condensation. VG. 2 vols. $150 |
| 89. | Mower, C.D. HOW TO BUILD A MOTOR LAUNCH. NY. 1904. 4to. b/w plates, plans. 4to. 42, (6), pp. plus 8 pp. illustrated ads. General instructions for building a 20 foot motor launch. Followed by a section on launch designs features 50 and 52 foot launches, coaching and cruising launches, open launch, and a power dingy. Boards spotted. Text immaculate. $150 |
| 90. | Naval Affairs Committee. REPORT OF THE NAVAL COMMITTEE... IN FAVOR OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LINE OF MAIL STEAMSHIPS TO THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA... DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE EMIGRATION OF FREE PERSONS OF COLOR... Wash. 1850. 79 pp. An interesting proposal, supported by northern and southern politicians, and endorsed by the American Colonization Society. This government sponsored line was to make a profit by charging adult passengers $10 a person for transport to Liberia. The ships would then call at ports in the Mediterranean and proceed to London in a regular mail run. The added bonus was that development of such a fleet would enhance our steam navy. One supposes that the plan foundered for lack of customers. Sabin 69882. Smith II, 3804. Original printed wrappers. Considered important enough to have been reprinted in modern times. Hard to find in original condition. $250 |
| 91. | Neeser, Robert W. AMERICAN NAVAL SONGS & BALLADS. New Haven. 1938. Color frontis. b/w plates. xviii, 372 pp. Collection of lyrics of naval songs from the Revolution to 1882. With 20 facsimiles of broadsides. First edition. VG $75 |
| 92. | Newcombe, C.F. THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF VANCOUVER ISLAND Victoria, BC 1914. b/w plates, one folding. 69 pp. Memoir No. 1 - Archives of British Columbia. Regarding Vancouver’s claim to be the first circumnavigator. Scarce pamphlet in Fine condition. Bound in original printed wrappers. $500 |
| 93. | Nishimura, Shinji. COLLECTION OF FIVE TITLES IN THE “STUDY OF ANCIENT SHIPS OF JAPAN” SERIES. Tokyo. Various dates. Color and b/w plates, ills. Various paginations. “Ancient Rafts of Japan” 1925. 180 pp. XXV b/w and color plates. “Skin-Boats” 1931. 248 pp. XXV b/w and color plates. “The Hisago-Bune or Calabash Boat” 1934. iii, 86 pp. VII b/w plates. “The Kako-No-Kawa or Deer-Skin” 1934. iv, 87-128 pp. Five b/w plates. “The Hani-Bune or Clay Boat” 1936. 129-162 pp. Two b/w plates, folding map. All are VG-Fine condition. First two titles have dj. All are quite scarce. Five vols. $1000 |
| 94. | Osborn, Captain Sherard. THE LAST VOYAGE, AND FATE OF CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. Lon. 1860. b/w plates. vi, 111 pp. First edition of this “brief biography of Franklin, and sketch of his last expedition, 1845-47, and the search for survivors or remains.” Arctic Bib. 12893. It was later appended to his “Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal” published in 1865. This is in a pretty full calf prize binding from the University College School, but is more notable for its 11-line inscription from Vilhjalmur Steffanson dated “Hanover, Apr. 10/57.” Nice association item, and scarce. $350 |
| 95. | Palmer, Thomas Fyshe. A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF T.F. PALMER AND W. SKIRVING, DURING A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, 1794, ON BOARD THE SURPRISE TRANSPORT. Cambridge. 1797. 74 pp. “Contains the story of the inhuman treatment of Palmer and Skirving by Captain Campbell, master of the Surprise, following the malicious discovery by Maurice Margarot, as fellow convict, of a sham plot for capturing the ship. Depositions... against Campbell are included.” Ferguson I, 254. First edition of a scarce pamphlet. OCLC shows 8 institutions hold copies. No copies have appeared at auction since 1996. This copy is complete, but apparently removed from a large volume of pamphlets. There is a tear at the top of the title page affecting part of one letter in the title, else a clean copy with sewing intact and no foxing. $2500 |
| 96. | Pamphlets. SIX PAMPHLETS ON POLAR EXPEDITIONS, BOUND TOGETHER. “Report of Lieut Giles B. Harber, U.S.N. of his Search for the Missing People of the Jeannette Expedition, etc.” (Wash. 1884) 75 pp. fldg. map, b/w photo plates. Front wrap bound in. Not in Arctic Bib. “The Polar Exploring Expedition. A Special Meeting of the American Geographical & Statistical Society. NY. 1860. Fldg. b/w chart of Arctic Regions. Sabin 1092. Wraps bound in. “The story of the Franklin Search Illustrative of the Franklin Relics...” Lon. 1891. 12mo. 12 pp. Wraps bound in. McGinley, Rev. Wm. A. “Reception of Lieut. A.W. Greely, U.S.A. and his Comrades, and the Arctic Relief Expedition, at Portsmouth, N.H. on August 1 and 4, 1884.” Wash. 1884. 58 pp. Not in Arctic Bib. No wraps Garlington, Ernest A. “Report on the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition.” Wash. 1883. 52 pp. foldg. map. Arctic Bib. 5548. Front wrap bound in. Rosse, Irving C. “The First Landing on Wrangel Island, with some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants.” NY 1883. pp. (163)-214. b/w plate. Signed by Rosse, wrappers bound in. Quite scarce, only three copies of the original on OCLC. The first two pamphlets show some waterstaining. Others VG. Bound together in green buckram. The lot $600 |
| 97. | Paris, Francois-Edmond. LE MUSEE DE MARINE DU LOUVRE. HISTOIRE, DESCRIPTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPRESENTATION STATISTIQUE DES NAVIRES A RAMES & A VOILES D'APRES LES MODELES ET LES DESSINS DES GALERIES DU MUSEE DU LOUVRE. Paris. 1883. Folio. viii, 153, (3) pp. One of only 300 copies printed, with 60 plates in photogravure. Original paper wrapper intact, cased in portfolio and box. This is the first and only edition of a rare book documenting the Lourve’s superb collection of ship models. Polak 7337. Scarce. OCLC shows only 11 institutions holding copies. The last copy to appear at auction was in 1997. Scattered light foxing, else VG in new portfolio. This is a large and impressive work. It weighs about as much as a Volkswagen. $2000 |
| 98. | Photograph. FIRE QUEEN. No, it’s not a rock band, a video game or a strip club act. She’s a sidewheel steamer in the coastal China trade, built by Robert Napier in 1844, and this is an early vintage albumen print of her, with “Fire Queen” clearly visible on her paddle box. Written in ink at the bottom corners of the print are “Capt. H. N. Gray” and “Chief Engr. Frank Prevost.” Oval image on sheet measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. Old crease marks, but clean and clear. $125 See Illustration |
| 99. | Piétri, J.B. VOILIERS D’INDOCHINE. Saigon. 1949. b/w, blue and sepia plates. Folio. 129 pp. plus lxx plates. Best edition of this important work on Vietnamese junks, first published in 1943. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Quite scarce. $350 |
| 100. | Pook, Samuel. A METHOD OF COMPARING THE LINES AND DRAUGHTING VESSELS, PROPELLED BY SAIL OR STEAM, INCLUDING A CHAPTER ON LAYING OFF ON THE MOULD LOFT FLOOR. NY. 1866. 14 b/w folding plans. 70 pp. with tables in text. This is a rare and important book on American Marine architecture, written by the father of the great clipper ship designer (also named Samuel) and containing some of the son’s clipper ship plans, as well as the method father and son developed for generating perfect hull forms. Brewington p. 95. (Even 75 years ago he noted that this work was “scarce.”) McDonald 335. Old tide mark of waterstain on outer edges of all pages. One tear at the gutter end of the large folding frontispiece, repaired with no loss, otherwise clean and tightly bound. $1250 |