Wreck of the Glide, with Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island

by James Oliver, William G. Dix

$500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. octavo. 203pp. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with title in gold on spine. Frontispiece of a b/w reproduction of a drawing showing Wallis Island. The Glide, owned by the late Joseph Peabody, Esq., and commanded by Captain Henry Archer, sailed from Salem for the South Pacific, on the twenty-second day of May, 1829. Her crew were mostly young men, some of

• Binding: Hardcover

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