Item #:41208
Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
Cary, Thomas G.
Little, Brown and Company, ( 1856), Boston
304 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Price: $50
Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins.
Cary, Thomas G.
Little, Brown and Company, ( 1856), Boston
304 pp. b/w frontispiece.
Price: $50
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, rebacked, with paper spine label. Ex-librarty with stamps on title page bt nowhere else in the book.
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