pentecost ernest (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. (w/o dj) A clean tightly bound hardcover copy without jacket. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the boards. A really nice copy overall.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold decoration and lettering on the spine. 155 pages. In good condition. The binding is strong, though the cloth of the spine is not connected to the text block. The covers are clean, if a bit rubbed and toned. Corners are bumped, as are the crown and foot of the spine. The last 50 or so pages are all tables. The pages inside are a bit toned around the edges but clean and unmarked. Contains black and white diagram illustrations, tables, and text throughout.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which continued even after it was prohibited by law. Among the topics covered are The Guinea Coast; Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader; the Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693; The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London; The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers; Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days; Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool; Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels and more. Publication Number 15 of the Marine Research Society. 50 black and white illustrations and maps, index. xxxv, 349 pp plus a 1 pp. list of their publications. Very near fine in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine - a large and heavy book, one upper corner slightly bumped.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Thus. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1927. First thus. Heavy 8vo. Cloth binding, 349 pp. Ex-library with mark to spine, no pocket, very minimal marking. Light tanning around photographs. A just about very good copy of this dark and disturbing collection of documents and images. Very good.

First edition of the second book published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts. Large octavo, bound in three quarter morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, cartographic endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. In fine condition. The second volume published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts, The Pirates of the New England Coast contains accounts of the beginnings of English piracy and the famed pirates Dixey Bull, John Rhodes, Thomas Pound, William Kidd, John Quelch, Samuel Bellamy, John Phillips, and Henry Morgan, among others.