THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER; COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE
Sparks, Jared
Published by Hilliard and Brown, Cambridge, 1828
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xii,325pp. plus [7]pp. of advertisements preceding the text. Half title. Tall octavo. Original publisher's binding of half brown cloth and paper covered boards, printed paper label. Label rubbed and split, boards rubbed and edgeworn. Front hinge strengthened internally. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp on titlepage, else very clean internally. Very good, in unsophisticated condition. Untrimmed. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label. Ledyard was one of the first great American explorers. He accompanied Cook's third expedition as a sailor, and so visited the Pacific, the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, where he was one of the oarsmen in the boat which took Cook ashore for the parley at which he was murdered. After the American Revolution, at the behest of Thomas Jefferson (then U.S. minister in Paris), Ledyard attempted to cross over to America by traversing Russia, only to be arrested and sent back in farther Siberia. He disappeared while exploring up the Nile in 1789. An important source for Cook's voyage and other great explorations, and seldom seen in the original publisher's binding. HOWES S818. SABIN 88991. LADA-MOCARSKI 92. WICKERSHAM 6566. TOURVILLE 4252. FORBES 708. Seller Inventory # WRCAM42993
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Title: THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN ...
Publisher: Hilliard and Brown, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1828
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THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER; COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 24 x 14.5 cm, xii, 325, [7] pp., Hilliard and Brown, Cambridge, 1828. xii,325 pp. plus [7] pp. of advertisements preceding the text. Half title. Original publisher's binding of half brown cloth and paper covered boards, except that the spine has been replaced with brown mending tape and the writing on it is badly done in white paint. The binding is slightly cracked in the front and broken in the back. On the front fixed end paper someone, perhaps a child, has drawn two human figures in pencil. However, there are no other markings in the book. The end paper at the back has a two inch hole in it. There is moderate foxing throughout. The pages are untrimmed. The front and back boards, which are original are somewhat stained and may have had mold at some point The book does not have any moldy odor however. The book is fundamentally complete. There is no sign that the book is ex-library, no book plates, no blind stamps. Ledyard was one of the first great American explorers. He accompanied Cook's third expedition as a marine. He visited the Pacific, the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. He was one of the oarsmen in the boat which took Cook ashore for the parley at which he was murdered. After the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson (then U.S. minister in Paris) asked him to lead an expedition to the western territories. However Ledyard, in an attempt to get to eastern U.S. from Europe tried going across Russia; he was arrested in eastern Russia on the orders of Catherine the Great and sent back to Siberia and never arrived in the U.S. Later he explored the Nile but died on that trip in 1789. His book was an important source of information about Cook's voyage and other great explorations. The author of this book, Jared Sparks, was a well known historian and also the President of Harvard University. HOWES S818. SABIN 88991. LADA-MOCARSKI 92. WICKERSHAM 6566. TOURVILLE 4252. FORBES 708. Seller Inventory # 002435
THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER; COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE.
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Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1828., 1828
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Seller: William Reese Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Ledyard was one of the first great American explorers. He accompanied Cook's third expedition as a sailor, and so visited the Pacific, the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, where he was one of the oarsmen in the boat which took Cook ashore for the parley at which he was murdered. After the American Revolution, at the behest of Thomas Jefferson (then U.S. minister in Paris), Ledyard attempted to cross over to America by traversing Russia, only to be arrested and sent back in farther Siberia. He disappeared while exploring up the Nile in 1789. An important source for Cook's voyage and other great explorations, and seldom seen in the original publisher's binding. HOWES S818. SABIN 88991. LADA-MOCARSKI 92. WICKERSHAM 6566. TOURVILLE 4252. FORBES 708. Tall octavo. Original publisher's binding of half brown cloth and paper covered boards, printed paper label. Label rubbed and split, boards rubbed and edgeworn. Front hinge strengthened internally. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp on titlepage, else very clean internally. Very good, in unsophisticated condition. Untrimmed. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label. Seller Inventory # 42993