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New York 1850 Barnes. Hardcover sm 8vo. Original pale green embossed cloth. Pictorial gilt spine title. 408p plus 20p publisher catalogue. Good, hinges not cracked in or out; cover a bit rubbed and extreme tips worn. No owner marks. Text illustrations, fullpage plates and text maps. .

New York, NY: A. S. Barnes & Co.. VG-. 1850. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good- condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 408 pages. With sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco. Ink ownership inscription; foxing to endpapers. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Cleaves, Macdonald & Co.: Boston, 1886. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. All volumes octavo, 7 2/3” tall, vol. 1: 456 pages + fold out reproduction of the California Constitution; vol. 2: 441 pages; vol. 3: 389 pages; vol. 4: 408 pages; all volumes contain a few plate pages; gilt spine titles on green and brown cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, slight exterior soiling and , and rubbing at the fore-corner tipss, binding tight, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

New York: A S Barnes & Co, 1850. First Edition. 8vo. Decorated green cloth, blind stamped and stamped in gold. 408 pp. Endpapers printed with publisher's ads. Fine condition. Engraved frontispiece four lovely hand-colored engravings..

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New York: A.S. Barnes, 1850. Long 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. First Edition. In black blind stamped boards, with gilt illustration of ship on front board, and gilt titles to spine. Boards are slightly rubbed. Frontis and title are heavily foxed. The rest of the pages lightly foxed. An important historical account of the post-war voyages of the USS Congress. Frontispiece portrait of Commodore Stockton, plus four colour plates. Howes' C624 makes this the first issue as it has printed endpapers (advertisements); these are blank endpapers in later issues. Small previous owner name and date to front. Complete with map on page 12. 490 pages. Foxing throughout. 190 x 135 mm (7½ x 5¼ inches). Titre long : L'histoire d'une croisière à bord de la frégate américaine Congress vers la Californie. Avec des croquis de Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu et… Read More

New York: A. S. Barnes & CO., 1850 . First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A first edition of this interesting documentation of the voyage of the US Congress to California, with illustrations. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. First edition, second issue of the work, with the addition of a map. Written by American Chaplain, Rev. Walter Colton, this work documents his experiences during a naval expedition from the gulf of Mexico to California in 1846-1847. The voyage takes him through Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Limo, Honolulu and San Francisco. Colton details many different aspects of the passing countries, including the natural encounters, the weather and religion. Illustrated with a frontispiece Commodore R. F. Stockton, four colour plates and a map of North and South America. In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. Externally, sound with slight bumping to the extremities. Slight rubbing, mainly to the front joint, with a small tear. The odd mark to boards… Read More