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Richard Henry Dana, 1840
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Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana, 1840
DANA, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882). Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
First edition, first issue, in rare morocco gift binding. With the dot above the "i" on copyright page and unbroken type in headline on p. 9. “One of the first and freshest, because of its plain factual nature, of American accounts of the sea, the book has added importance because ... Dana journeyed up into the California cattle country, of which he gives us our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush” (Grolier American 46). The binding is not signed, but is similar to other Harper gift bindings of the 1840s. BAL 4434 (recording only cloth bindings); Cowan 1:156; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano Eighty, 26.
Octavo (145 x 93mm). (Scattered pale foxing.) Dark navy full morocco stamped in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, pink moire endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt (minor rubbing to edges, lower joint just starting at head); full morocco slipcase.
Richard Henry Dana, 1840
DANA, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882). Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
First edition, first issue, in rare morocco gift binding. With the dot above the "i" on copyright page and unbroken type in headline on p. 9. “One of the first and freshest, because of its plain factual nature, of American accounts of the sea, the book has added importance because ... Dana journeyed up into the California cattle country, of which he gives us our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush” (Grolier American 46). The binding is not signed, but is similar to other Harper gift bindings of the 1840s. BAL 4434 (recording only cloth bindings); Cowan 1:156; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano Eighty, 26.
Octavo (145 x 93mm). (Scattered pale foxing.) Dark navy full morocco stamped in gilt, spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands, pink moire endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt (minor rubbing to edges, lower joint just starting at head); full morocco slipcase.
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