MORRELL, Benjamin. A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean... 1822 to 1831 . New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. 8°, (223 x 145mm). Engraved portrait. Original red/brown cloth with printed paper label, (spine faded, some leaves browned). First edition in unusually good condition of one of the earliest first-hand accounts of many South Sea islands by a sea captain with a reputation for "drawing on his imagination at times" and who was engaged in the fur trade during the course of his career. His exciting adventures in the South Seas were extensively paraphrased by Edgar Allan Poe for his "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Hill, p. 204. Thomas Jefferson JACOBS. Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, the islands of the Australasian Seas,... under Capt. Benjamin Morrell . New York: Harper, 1844. 8° (205 x 130mm). 3 engraved plates including folding view of Canton, in-text maps and engravings. Original brown cloth gilt, (spine slightly faded, snagged at foot). RARE FIRST EDITION. Hill, p. 458. Sabin 35506. Abby Jane MORRELL. Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean,... North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831 . New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. 12°, (197 x 115mm). Engraved portrait, one page of preliminary advertisements at end. Uncut in original blue cloth, printed paper label, (somewhat faded and soiled, upper hinge split). RARE FIRST EDITION of her voyage with her husband aboard 'Antarctic' to Tristan da Cunha, New Zealand, the Aucklands Islands, Fiji, Massacre Island in the Solomons, and the East Indies to Africa and St. Helena. An entirely separate work of great interest. Hill, p. 203. [Benjamin MORRELL]. Morrell's Narrative of A Voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa: containing the information from whence originated the present trade in Guano... And an appendix... . London: Whittaker and Company, 1844. 12°, (195 x 120mm). Original brown cloth gilt, partly unopened. On the chemistry, location and values of African and Peruvian guano. (3)
MORRELL, Benjamin. A Narrative of Four Voyages, to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, Chinese Sea, Ethiopic and Southern Atlantic Ocean, Indian and Antarctic Ocean... 1822 to 1831 . New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. 8°, (223 x 145mm). Engraved portrait. Original red/brown cloth with printed paper label, (spine faded, some leaves browned). First edition in unusually good condition of one of the earliest first-hand accounts of many South Sea islands by a sea captain with a reputation for "drawing on his imagination at times" and who was engaged in the fur trade during the course of his career. His exciting adventures in the South Seas were extensively paraphrased by Edgar Allan Poe for his "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Hill, p. 204. Thomas Jefferson JACOBS. Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, the islands of the Australasian Seas,... under Capt. Benjamin Morrell . New York: Harper, 1844. 8° (205 x 130mm). 3 engraved plates including folding view of Canton, in-text maps and engravings. Original brown cloth gilt, (spine slightly faded, snagged at foot). RARE FIRST EDITION. Hill, p. 458. Sabin 35506. Abby Jane MORRELL. Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean,... North and South Pacific Ocean, in the years 1829, 1830, 1831 . New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. 12°, (197 x 115mm). Engraved portrait, one page of preliminary advertisements at end. Uncut in original blue cloth, printed paper label, (somewhat faded and soiled, upper hinge split). RARE FIRST EDITION of her voyage with her husband aboard 'Antarctic' to Tristan da Cunha, New Zealand, the Aucklands Islands, Fiji, Massacre Island in the Solomons, and the East Indies to Africa and St. Helena. An entirely separate work of great interest. Hill, p. 203. [Benjamin MORRELL]. Morrell's Narrative of A Voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa: containing the information from whence originated the present trade in Guano... And an appendix... . London: Whittaker and Company, 1844. 12°, (195 x 120mm). Original brown cloth gilt, partly unopened. On the chemistry, location and values of African and Peruvian guano. (3)
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