Apontamentos e impressões de Viagem de Um Guarda-Marinha por ... Socio do Club Naval e natural da Provincia de S. Paulo.

Rio de Janeiro, Typ. e lith. Economica, rua de Gonçalves Dias n. 28, 1887.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Large 8°, later blue quarter cloth over decorated boards (slight wear); green printed front wrapper bound in (soiled). Some browning. Overall in good condition. (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 l.), [12]-60 pp. but LACKING pp. 53-56; with 1 folding table and 1 folding color plate. Might the folding table and folding plate count as pp. 53-56? *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Mariano de Azevedo Itapura (São Paulo, 1864-Rio de Janeiro, 1889), an officer in the coast guard who served on the Nichteroy, the Javary, and the Almirante Barrozo, publishes his unedited letters to his brother. He mentions New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico, Havana, Matanzas, New York, Newport, the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cabo Verde, São Vicente. The last few pages describe a fire aboard an Austrian brig Cori in the harbor of Montevideo; for his valor in helping save those aboard, Itapura was commended and promoted. Includes a folding table of holidays for various nations, and a folding plate, in color, of flags for the provinces of Brazil.The letters that recounted his travels on the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans had to be reconstructed from the author's notes, since the originals were not available. Itapura had previously published A batalha naval do Riachuelo, Rio de Janeiro, 1885.*** Sacramento Blake VI, 236-7 (without collation). Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched).