hussey john henry rusk (2 Ergebnisse)

San Francisco. The Book Club of California, 1958. Tall 8vo, xxvii, 36 pp. Black and white illustrations by Rusk throughout. Quarter black morocco and marbled paper covered boards. A fine copy with the rhymed errata slip in rear and with the original prospectus and ordering envelope laid in. § Limited to 400 copies. The frank and entertaining private journal of an anonymous crewmember on the sloop Racoon, sent by Great Britain to seize John Jacob Astor's Columbia River fur trading post during the War of 1812. ".a vivid picture of life at sea and in port aboard an English man-of-war during the period of Britain's greatest naval glory. It also provides intimate and fresh glimpses of Oregon, California, and Hawaii during a period for which travelers' narratives are rather few and far between" (Prospectus).

Zustand: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Page, Very Good. Return envelope present. Illustrated.