Item #:41233
Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
Cary, Thomas G.
Little, Brown and Company, ( 1856), Boston
304 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Price: $100
Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
Cary, Thomas G.
Little, Brown and Company, ( 1856), Boston
304 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Price: $100
Perkins was a prominent member of the Federalist Party and a pioneer in the China Trade. This work contains his recollections of that trade, with descriptions of far Eastern ports, sections of his sea-journals, etc. He also founded the Perkins Institute for the Blind. First edition. Scarce. See Sabin 11218, citing an 1858 edition. In original blind stamped cloth binding, spine ends chipped, else very good condition. Inscribed by Perkins “With the Author’s regards” to a Miss Lamb.
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