Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea;

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A fine copy of this tour through the Mediterranean, which included time on Minorca, the Lipari islands, Sicily, Corfu and Malta. Rockwell was originally posted to Marseille as a missionary of the American Seamen’s Friend Society in 1834. Shortly thereafter, he accepted the post of naval chaplain aboard the USS Potomac. Blackmer,1440; Sabin, 72420.

• Year: 1842

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