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Early 19th Century journalistic approach to historic shipwrecks. Four volume set.Vol.1 viii + 343 pp. Vol.2 iv + 316 pp. Vol.3 vi + 307 pp. Vol.4 vi + 304 pp.
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A History of Shipwrecks, and Disasters at Sea, from the most authentic sources
by Cyrus Redding
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MASTERMAN READY: THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC
by Captain Marryat
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In three 8vo. volumes.Vol. 1: Three unnumbered title pages + vi-viii, pp.287 + 32 pp. Publisher's catalogues No.1 & 2, dated October, 1842;Vol. 2: 269pp. plus identical 32 pp. catalogues;Vol. 3: 225pp. and an additional note by author.
With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and publisher's advertisement catalogues to Vols. I and II. Spines lightly sunned. Original publisher's bindings by Westleys & Clark, London. Light yellow FEPs with original owner's neat signatures (Marie Tronchin) on all three volumes. Internally very clean. The first edition of Frederick Marryat's (1792-1848) three volume naval adventure for children, following the Seagrave family and their experiences surviving on an island after shipwreck.
Marryat began writing books for children in 1839 when his own children asked him to write a continuation of their own favourite The Swiss Family Robinson. But when Marryat came to examine Wyss's tale, he considered it so implausible, so… Read More
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