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Auction archive: Lot number 232

SHIPWRECKS]. PATERSON, SAMUEL. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of...Patterson, Experienced in the Pacific Ocean...with an Account of the Feegee, and Sandwich Islands, Palmer, Mass., May 1, 1817, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, slig...

Auction 08.10.1991
8 Oct 1991
Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$1,320
Auction archive: Lot number 232

SHIPWRECKS]. PATERSON, SAMUEL. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of...Patterson, Experienced in the Pacific Ocean...with an Account of the Feegee, and Sandwich Islands, Palmer, Mass., May 1, 1817, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, slig...

Auction 08.10.1991
8 Oct 1991
Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$1,320
Beschreibung:

SHIPWRECKS]. PATERSON, SAMUEL. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of...Patterson, Experienced in the Pacific Ocean...with an Account of the Feegee, and Sandwich Islands, Palmer, Mass., May 1, 1817, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, slight wear at extremities, text browned with some staining, 2 leaves with marginal chips, FIRST EDITION? of a interesting Pacific narrative important for its material on Fiji (where Patterson was shipwrecked in 1808) and Hawaii. Howes P 122 (referring to this as second issue, citing a Rhode Island edition of the same year as the first, but the Rhode Island issue is unrecorded elsewhere, Ferguson 692 ("very rare"), Hill, p. 277, Sabin 59145--[DUBOIS-FRONTANELLE, JEAN GASPARD]. The Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, A native of Bourdeaux, and Captain of a Ship. Translated from the French by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Griffith, London, 1771, contemporary calf, gilt spine, corners recapped, First Edition in English, engraved frontispiece, half-title. The story of a shipwreck off the Florida coast; contains an account of cannibalism. Sabin 21020--INGLEFIELD, J.N. Capt. Inglefield's Narrative, concerning The Loss of His Majesty's Ship The Centaur...on the great Western Ocean...A New Edition, Corrected, London 1783, blue morocco, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, front joint bit rubbed, half-title. The Centaur, sailing from Jamaica to England with a squadron of ships under Admiral Graves, encountered a hurricane. This edition has added two pages on Inglefield's court martial. Not in Sabin--ROBBINS, ARCHIBALD. A Journal, comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig Commerce, of Hartford, (Conn.)...upon the Western Coast of Africa, August 28, 1815; also of the Slavery and Suffering of the Author and the Rest of the Crew, upon the Desert of Zahara, in the Years 1815, 1816, 1817, Hartford (Conn.), 1817, contemporary calf, rubbed, small tear in title-page, some foxing, FIRST EDITION, folding map of North Africa ( foxed, a bit frayed at two edges ). Sabin 71738. Bookplate of W.S. Ahern numbered and signed by Von Jost--ADAMS, ROBERT. The Narrative of Robert Adams an American Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa in the Year 1810; was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided Several Months in the City of Tombuctoo, Boston, 1817, later half calf, some wear and browning , First American Edition, edited by S. Cock, folding map of North Africa showing Adams' route. 1853 American provenance note; bookplate of Frank P. Hadley; together 5 vols., 12mo-8vo. (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 232
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

SHIPWRECKS]. PATERSON, SAMUEL. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of...Patterson, Experienced in the Pacific Ocean...with an Account of the Feegee, and Sandwich Islands, Palmer, Mass., May 1, 1817, contemporary calf, morocco spine label, slight wear at extremities, text browned with some staining, 2 leaves with marginal chips, FIRST EDITION? of a interesting Pacific narrative important for its material on Fiji (where Patterson was shipwrecked in 1808) and Hawaii. Howes P 122 (referring to this as second issue, citing a Rhode Island edition of the same year as the first, but the Rhode Island issue is unrecorded elsewhere, Ferguson 692 ("very rare"), Hill, p. 277, Sabin 59145--[DUBOIS-FRONTANELLE, JEAN GASPARD]. The Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, A native of Bourdeaux, and Captain of a Ship. Translated from the French by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Griffith, London, 1771, contemporary calf, gilt spine, corners recapped, First Edition in English, engraved frontispiece, half-title. The story of a shipwreck off the Florida coast; contains an account of cannibalism. Sabin 21020--INGLEFIELD, J.N. Capt. Inglefield's Narrative, concerning The Loss of His Majesty's Ship The Centaur...on the great Western Ocean...A New Edition, Corrected, London 1783, blue morocco, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, front joint bit rubbed, half-title. The Centaur, sailing from Jamaica to England with a squadron of ships under Admiral Graves, encountered a hurricane. This edition has added two pages on Inglefield's court martial. Not in Sabin--ROBBINS, ARCHIBALD. A Journal, comprising an Account of the Loss of the Brig Commerce, of Hartford, (Conn.)...upon the Western Coast of Africa, August 28, 1815; also of the Slavery and Suffering of the Author and the Rest of the Crew, upon the Desert of Zahara, in the Years 1815, 1816, 1817, Hartford (Conn.), 1817, contemporary calf, rubbed, small tear in title-page, some foxing, FIRST EDITION, folding map of North Africa ( foxed, a bit frayed at two edges ). Sabin 71738. Bookplate of W.S. Ahern numbered and signed by Von Jost--ADAMS, ROBERT. The Narrative of Robert Adams an American Sailor, who was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa in the Year 1810; was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided Several Months in the City of Tombuctoo, Boston, 1817, later half calf, some wear and browning , First American Edition, edited by S. Cock, folding map of North Africa showing Adams' route. 1853 American provenance note; bookplate of Frank P. Hadley; together 5 vols., 12mo-8vo. (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 232
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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