Twenty Years Before the Mast
With the More Thrilling Scenes and Incidents While Circumnavigating the Globe Under the Command of the Late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838-1842
By Charles Erskine
With Numerous Illustrations
ILLUSTRATED
SCARCE
Publisher: George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia
Copyright: 1896
CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. Hardcover. Beautiful green cloth with elaborate gilt titles. Front feature a sailor's kerchief and pulleys and the rear a hand holding a whip. Boards are bowed and buckled due to moisture damage with wear along edges and corners. Floral endpapers. Color frontispiece with author's portrait. A few pages in the beginning are moisture stained. Rest of text block and illustrations are crisp and clean. Scarce.
5" x 7.75"
311 pages
LOC BRN B2 SH1
With the More Thrilling Scenes and Incidents While Circumnavigating the Globe Under the Command of the Late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838-1842
By Charles Erskine
With Numerous Illustrations
ILLUSTRATED
SCARCE
Publisher: George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia
Copyright: 1896
CONDITION: This book is in fair condition. Hardcover. Beautiful green cloth with elaborate gilt titles. Front feature a sailor's kerchief and pulleys and the rear a hand holding a whip. Boards are bowed and buckled due to moisture damage with wear along edges and corners. Floral endpapers. Color frontispiece with author's portrait. A few pages in the beginning are moisture stained. Rest of text block and illustrations are crisp and clean. Scarce.
5" x 7.75"
311 pages
LOC BRN B2 SH1