[Goodrich, Samuel G.]:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

PETER PARLEY'S TALES OF THE SEA. With many engravings. A scarce later edition of this final installment of Peter Parley's "Series of Tales, designed to instruct children in Geography and History. The other volumes are America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Islands in the Pacific." First published in 1831, this popular title was reprinted at least ten times prior to this 1860 edition. This enchanting children's book covers a wide range of maritime subjects including oceans, seas, the parts of a ship, types of vessels, a cabin boy's story, whales and whaling, pearl divers, coral fisheries, sponges, and sea monsters. The volume ends with the story of the Pacific voyager La Pérouse. OCLC records only two copies, at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Texas A&M University.

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