Search Results: voyages round the world by fanning edmund

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-23. Paperback. Good.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1970. Reprint . Cloth - Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 499 pages. Slight signs of age/use.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press. 1970. Large Octavo Size [23.5x16cm. Very Good condition. Cream cloth boards. Both endpapers have a glue stain the length of the spine and about 0.5cm wide - main text unaffected (common - publication flaw). Faint, scattered foxing to covers and edges. Very mild. Black & white illustrations. 499 pages. Originally published in 1833. Also includes 'Information Relating to Important Late Discoveries; Between the Years 1792 and 1832, Together with the Report of the Commander of the First American Exploring Expedition Patronised by the United States Government, in the Brigs Seraph and Annawan, to the Southern Hemisphere.' Edmund Fanning [1769-1841] was an American explorer and sea captain known as the 'Pathfinder of the Pacific'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

New York, Collins & Hannay, (1970).. Reprint; 8vo; pp. 499; frontispiece; original illustrated cloth, spine bumped, good copy.

New York: Collins & Hannay; D. Appleton & Co. , 1833. Good copies. In marbled paper covered boards with black leather corners and spine with four bands and gilt lettering. Label of the Harvard Historical Society, Nathaniel Dill Library on verso front free endpaper. Fremont's paper was published in 1849. Fanning's paper lacks one of two folding plates. Square and intact binding. Unmarked but randomly foxed text pages, all legible. Moderate scuffing to leather. Photos upon request. . Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Collins & Hannay, 1833. Hardcover. Acceptable. This Book is an Ex-Library Book with several library markings. Collins & Hannay; New York, 1833. Hardcover. An Acceptable, brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, sunning to spine and board margins, some handling/scuffing to boards, new endpapers and pastedowns, age toning and scattered foxing to original text block, both folding plates mostly missing, one plate affirmed to prelim and remaining plates missing, text block edges pulpy, rubbing along board and spine edges, few small dog-eared pages, previous owner handwritten info in pencil on top dedication page, several library markings include: library bookplate, ink number stamps and ink number sticker, few ink markings, library stamps, due date card pocket, embossed library stamp, library calling number bottom spine, without Dust wrapper. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 499pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of… Read More

New York: Collins & Hannay, 1833. First edition. With 5 lithographed plates (2 folding). xii, 499 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later 3/4 navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt with gilt nautical devices in panels, t.e.g. Scattered staining (heavy in a few spots), folding plates backed, otherwise very good. First edition. With 5 lithographed plates (2 folding). xii, 499 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The memoirs of one of America's greatest explorers, containing the account of the first naval expedition to the southern hemisphere sponsored by the U.S. government. The author gives accounts of adventures in Australia, and includes tales of the rescue of the Rev. William Pascoe Crook, a missionary; of sealing in the South Seas and off the coasts of New Holland; of a journey to King George's Sound; and tales of Simeon Lord of Sydney and his sealing and sandalwood ventures. Fanning, originally of Stonington, Connecticut, in May 1792 embarked on his first voyage to the South Seas. In the ensuing twenty-five years, he made voyages to… Read More

New York: Collins & Hannay,, 1833. First edition of an account of the voyages of Edmund Fanning (1769-1841), an American sea captain and explorer credited as the discover of several islands including one now named after him. This copy has appealing provenance, from the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice "Kenn" Back (b. 1942), a former British Antarctic Survey metereologist and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back. In his distinguished career, Back saw out eight Antarctic winters (which he believed to be "a BAS record"), completing postings as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations, undertook several research secondments to the Canadian Arctic explored by his ancestor. During what he describes as "a long period of vagrancy", he worked and travelled widely in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. He is one of a select group of people to have received both the Fuchs Medal, in 1979, and the Polar Medal, awarded the following year. A few of Back's notes are inserted loosely… Read More

Boston: E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. First edition of Massachusetts sea captain Amasa Delano's account of his voyages between 1790 and 1810, covering the Hawaiian, "Pelew," and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton and Macao; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; and Chile and Peru. Delano's narrative is best remembered for his account of the capture of the Spanish ship Tryal off the coast of Chile, the inspiration for Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, in which an unsuspecting American captain boards a moored ship in the middle of a slave revolt, misinterpreting every action he witnesses. In Delano's original account: "the negro, who kept constantly at the elbows of Don Benito and myself, I should, at any other time, have immediately resented. . . . the Spanish sailors were then seen jumping overboard and making for our boat." This copy bears the ownership signature of fellow sea captain Edmund Fanning, "the Pathfinder of the Pacific," a native of Connecticut who set sail in 1792 for the South… Read More

New York: Collins & Hannay, 1833. First Edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 232 x 146 mm). xii, 13-499, [3, blank] pp. With five engraved plates, two of which are folding. Original quarter blue cloth over drab boards. Original paper spine label, lettered in black. Top edge grey, others uncut. Corners slightly bumped. Top of spine with a small chip at the corner. Paper label rubbed, Some light foxing. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. A very good copy. "Captain Fanning of Stonington, Connecticut, sailed for the South Seas in 1792 on a voyage for sealskins. During the next twenty-five years he made voyage to the Pacific and around the world., visiting Australia, the desolate lands of South Georgia, and the islands of Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. He discovered several islands, including one that still bears his name, lying 1200 miles south of Honolulu. Included is an account of the first American naval exploring expedition to the southern hemisphere, 1829-30, sponsored by the… Read More