wise lieut (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1850; New York; brown cloth covered boards with embossing; gold titles; rubbing and edge wear; foxing throughout; water damage to fore edge; interior is unmarked; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall; 453 pages.

Cloth. Second printing. xvi, 453 pp. Sm. 8vo. Sabin notes that the second printing has the same imprints and collation as the first. Sabin 104892n. Howes W593. Spine ends worn, a few small splits at the upper joints, foxed throughout, signed Charles A. Gillette 1852 on free front endpaper, binding quite solid, overall a good to very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. first edition. 5 x 8 in. xvi, 453 pp. Brown publisher's cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt spine titles. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers very clean, wear to corners with light bumping, wear and slight loss to both spiune ends. Binding tight. The paper used is fairly heavy so the text is thick, showing a couple pgs where the binding strings are visible but entitrely undamaged. No markings. Text has some foxing, light mostly, a handful of pgs heavier - overall perfectly readable. Naut. RGR.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo., (7 2/8 x 5 inches). (Some spotting). Original green cloth decorated in blind. Provenance: Penciled ownership inscriptions of A. Tucker on the recto of the first blank and the title-page; duplicate library stamp of Andover-Harvard Theological Library on the verso of the title-page; Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006) (Collection of Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography and Science). First edition. "The title- "Los Gringos" - .used in Californai and Mexico to designate the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon race; the definition of the word is somewhat similar to that of Greenhorns, in modern parlance, or Mohawks in the days of the Spectator. Although many of the scenes were passed in the those countries, yet the narrative takes a wider range, and embraces portions of the South American Continent in Brazil, Chili, and Peru, together with visits to some of the groups of the Pacific at the Sandwich, Marquesas and Society Islands" (Wise "Preface"). "An officer in the United States Navy, Wise served on board the razee (cut-down sailing ship-of-line) "Independent" during the Mexican War. He narrates his experiences on an expedition sailing from Boston around Cape Horn, bound for Mexico and California to fight in the war. From Boston, the ship sailed down the coast of the Americas, making port at Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Tierra del Fuego, and then Valparaiso, after rounding the Horn. Upon reaching the Californian and Mexican coasts, the "Independent" and the troops she carried engaged in hostilities with the Mexicans until the end of the war. Wise recorded many details of the actual fighting as well as other general incidents relating to his acquaintance with the Mexican people and their ways. At the end of the war, the vessel returned to Boston, stopping at Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, and then Callao, before again rounding Cape Horn" (Hill 1902). Howes W593. Purchased at Christie's as part of a group lot, 17th April 2007, lot 509.

NY 1850. 7x4.5", library buckram, 453pp, EX-LIBRARY, usual markings, corners bumped, moderate foxing else ok in a recent plain cloth binding.