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Understanding 9/11Four years in a government exploring expedition : to the island of Madeira ... &c. &c. : in one volume
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statement of responsibility: by Lieut. Geo. M. Colvocoresses, U.S. Navy, an officer of the Expedition
"Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, Jr., No. 29 Beekman Street, N.Y."--Verso of t.p
"[C]ompiled from a journal, or a diary, which the author kept in obedience to a 'General order' from the Navy Department ..."--Preface
Title page and text printed within double-rule borders
Illustrated with stock wood engravings
Variants: Rosove notes frontispiece with or without a printed caption, "Massacre of Lieut. Underwood and Midshipman Henry"; also blank verso of illustration facing p. 16 with or without the double-rule border
Collation: [unsigned, 1-16¹²]; 192 leaves, pp. [1-5] 6-12 [13] 14-16 [2 unc.] 17-58 [2 unc.] 59-112 [2 unc.] 113-126 [2 unc.] 127-371 [372-376] + frontispiece. The uncounted pages consist of integral leaves with an illustration on one side, the other side blank except for rules; the remainder of the illustrations are printed on one side of unnumbered leaves included in the pagination count. The frontispiece is a single leaf printed on heavier paper
Publisher's advertisements: p. [373-375]
Issued in a blue or brown cloth binding with publisher's monogram in blind on covers; spine title in gold: The new continent or Four years in a government expedition
citation/reference: Sabin 14907
citation/reference: Rosove, M.H. Antarctica, 74
William Reese & Co.; purchase; 03/2012; 750.00
(from t.p.) Island of Madeira -- Cape Verd Islands -- Brazil -- Coast of Patagonia -- Chili -- Peru -- Paumato Group --Society Islands -- Navigator Group -- Australia -- Antarctic Continent -- New Zealand -- Friendly Islands -- Fejee Group --Sandwich Islands -- Northwest coast of America -- Oregon -- California -- East Indies -- St. Helena, -- &c., &c
Sabin
Rosove, M.H. Antarctica
William Reese & Co.;
SCNHRB copy 39088016718033 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has the caption present on the frontispiece, and p. 16 has the double-rule border (the facing blank verso of illustration does not have the border)
SCNHRB copy has an inscription handwritten in ink on the front free endpaper: A New Year's present to Charley, A.D. 1855
SCNHRB copy has the publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped blue cloth binding. There is a partially removed printed bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down endpaper: From W[illiam] H. Fisk's B[ookshop?] & Bindery, [Manch]ester, N.H
"Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, Jr., No. 29 Beekman Street, N.Y."--Verso of t.p
"[C]ompiled from a journal, or a diary, which the author kept in obedience to a 'General order' from the Navy Department ..."--Preface
Title page and text printed within double-rule borders
Illustrated with stock wood engravings
Variants: Rosove notes frontispiece with or without a printed caption, "Massacre of Lieut. Underwood and Midshipman Henry"; also blank verso of illustration facing p. 16 with or without the double-rule border
Collation: [unsigned, 1-16¹²]; 192 leaves, pp. [1-5] 6-12 [13] 14-16 [2 unc.] 17-58 [2 unc.] 59-112 [2 unc.] 113-126 [2 unc.] 127-371 [372-376] + frontispiece. The uncounted pages consist of integral leaves with an illustration on one side, the other side blank except for rules; the remainder of the illustrations are printed on one side of unnumbered leaves included in the pagination count. The frontispiece is a single leaf printed on heavier paper
Publisher's advertisements: p. [373-375]
Issued in a blue or brown cloth binding with publisher's monogram in blind on covers; spine title in gold: The new continent or Four years in a government expedition
citation/reference: Sabin 14907
citation/reference: Rosove, M.H. Antarctica, 74
William Reese & Co.; purchase; 03/2012; 750.00
(from t.p.) Island of Madeira -- Cape Verd Islands -- Brazil -- Coast of Patagonia -- Chili -- Peru -- Paumato Group --Society Islands -- Navigator Group -- Australia -- Antarctic Continent -- New Zealand -- Friendly Islands -- Fejee Group --Sandwich Islands -- Northwest coast of America -- Oregon -- California -- East Indies -- St. Helena, -- &c., &c
Sabin
Rosove, M.H. Antarctica
William Reese & Co.;
SCNHRB copy 39088016718033 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment
SCNHRB copy has the caption present on the frontispiece, and p. 16 has the double-rule border (the facing blank verso of illustration does not have the border)
SCNHRB copy has an inscription handwritten in ink on the front free endpaper: A New Year's present to Charley, A.D. 1855
SCNHRB copy has the publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped blue cloth binding. There is a partially removed printed bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down endpaper: From W[illiam] H. Fisk's B[ookshop?] & Bindery, [Manch]ester, N.H
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