captain chamier frederick chamier (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of popular nineteenth century novelist Frederick Chamier's nautical tale, which expertly combines authenticity with melodrama. The very scarce first edition, complete in three volumes. A second edition, also vanishingly scarce, was published in the same year as this first edition.This novel draws inspiration from the author's own experiences at sea, where he served as a naval captain in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.The story centres on the titular ship, HMS Spitfire, and follows the exploits of its officers and crew during the Napoleonic Wars.Chamier was a personal friend of Lord Byron.Lacking the first text leaf of volume I, being the leaf immediately following the title page, and containing pages 1 and 2 of text.With the label of R. Cottle's Circulating Library, Basingstoke, to each front board, and with their bookplate listing their terms to each front pastedown. In full cloth bindings, with circulating library labels to front boards. Loss to centre of label to volume II front board, with small tide mark to head of this board. Bumping and small losses of cloth to back strip heads and tails. Rear joint heads and tails starting, as our tails of front boards of volumes I and III, with boards holding firm. Library bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with significant handling marks to page perimeters, and the odd spot. Lacking the first text leaf of volume I, being the leaf immediately following the title page, and containing pages 1 and 2 of text. Good. book.

First edition. First edition. [ii], 314; [ii], 296; [ii], 318 pp., no half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo. First edition of this uncommon novel by Frederick Chamier (1796-1870), author and naval captain who achieved some success with his sea novels in the style of Marryat. His autobiography, The Life of a Sailor (1827), is notable for its eyewitness account of Bryon's famed swim across the Hellespont in 1810. Block, p. 38; OCLC: 2520527 (12 copies); not in Wolff or Sadleir Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, black morocco spine labels. Light scuffing and wear to bindings, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, one title label chipped, sporadic foxing. Signed "Edmd H. Turton" on each title-page [ii], 314; [ii], 296; [ii], 318 pp., no half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo.