Title: Lot of 3 books, authors anonymous, relating to shipwrecks Author: ** Place: Various Places Publisher: Date: Various Dates Description: Comprises: Loss of His Majesty's ship Centaur, of seventy-four guns, the 23d of September, 1782; also, The explosion of the French East-India Company's vessel the Prince, on the 25th of July, 1752, and miraculous preservation of part of the crew in the pinnace. London: Thomas Tegg, no date (circa 1810). Later cloth. The Shipwreck, or, the Desert Island: A Moral Tale. Philadelphia: James Kay 1839. First Edition. Handcolored plates. Period calf and marbled boards. Wrecked on a Reef; or, Twenty Months among the Auckland Isles. London: Thomas Nelson, 1884. Engraved illustrations. Pictorial cloth. Early reprint. Various sizes and paginations. Interesting trio of shipwreck stories; two historical, one "moral." Lot Amendments Condition: First title lacks a folding frontispiece plate, title page soiled, else near very good; second with dampstain to pages, wear to joints, else near very good; third with moderate rubbing to edges of covers owner stamp to endpapers, text a bit grubby, else near very good. Item number: 168386
Title: Lot of 3 books, authors anonymous, relating to shipwrecks Author: ** Place: Various Places Publisher: Date: Various Dates Description: Comprises: Loss of His Majesty's ship Centaur, of seventy-four guns, the 23d of September, 1782; also, The explosion of the French East-India Company's vessel the Prince, on the 25th of July, 1752, and miraculous preservation of part of the crew in the pinnace. London: Thomas Tegg, no date (circa 1810). Later cloth. The Shipwreck, or, the Desert Island: A Moral Tale. Philadelphia: James Kay 1839. First Edition. Handcolored plates. Period calf and marbled boards. Wrecked on a Reef; or, Twenty Months among the Auckland Isles. London: Thomas Nelson, 1884. Engraved illustrations. Pictorial cloth. Early reprint. Various sizes and paginations. Interesting trio of shipwreck stories; two historical, one "moral." Lot Amendments Condition: First title lacks a folding frontispiece plate, title page soiled, else near very good; second with dampstain to pages, wear to joints, else near very good; third with moderate rubbing to edges of covers owner stamp to endpapers, text a bit grubby, else near very good. Item number: 168386
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