Deck and Port; or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco - Price Estimate: $200

Sale 591: Rare Americana & Travel, with Books & Maps from the Warren Heckrotte Collection (#591) 07/28/2016 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Deck and Port; or, Incidents of a Cruise

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Estimate:

$200 - $300

Title:

Deck and Port; or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco

Author:

Colton, Walter

Place:

New York

Publisher:

A.S. Barnes

Date:

1850

Description:

408 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard; 4 color lithograph plates by Sarony; map; wood engravings within the text. (8vo), original blind-stamped cloth, spine stamped in gilt, advertisements printed on endpapers. First Edition, first issue.

First issue, with the lithographed plates by Sarony rather than Sarony & Major, and with printed endpapers. Cowan p.137; Howes C624.

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Condition:

Some rubbing to covers, spine faded, extremity wear; some foxing and light dampstaining to contents, very good.

Item number:

273419

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