Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; including a cruise on board a man-of-war, as also a visit to Spain, Portugal.... and a treatise on the navy of the United States

by Rev. Charles Rockwell

$1,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Frontispiece. xviii, ii , 404, viii, 437, blank pp. 8vo. Original black blindstamped cloth, spine gilt, corners slightly rubbed. A fine copy. Sabin, 72420; not in Borba. Item #300155 Rockwell's time with the navy came by accident rather than by design: passage to the Mediterranean ... had been granted him by the Secretary of the Navy, and as there was no Chaplain on board, he yielded to

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