Item #:37805
Ship and Shore: Or Leaves from the Journal of a Cruise to the Levant.
Anon. (Colton, Walter.)
Leavitt, Lord & Co., ( 1835), NY
12mo. 312, (12 adverts) pp.
Price: $100
Ship and Shore: Or Leaves from the Journal of a Cruise to the Levant.
Anon. (Colton, Walter.)
Leavitt, Lord & Co., ( 1835), NY
12mo. 312, (12 adverts) pp.
Price: $100
Mediterranean cruise on an unnamed vessel, a frigate of the second class, written in a breezy style by an unnamed Officer of the United States Navy – actually Walter Colton, a naval Chaplain and author of several books. The vessel was undoubtedly the “Constellation”, then in the fourth decade of her long career. Colton gives a good look at Naval life as well as at the near east. See Drury, U.S. Naval Chaplains p. 56. Smith II 2284. First ed. Scarce. Light wear to spine ends else a very good copy in original blind stamped boards with gold decoration on backstrip.
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