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Published by Scribner, New York, 1857
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Original cloth, little worn at the ends of the spine, very good.
Published by C. Scribner, New York, 1857
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Edition. 8vo; 453 pages; Full leather binding with a replace leather spine. This copy is inscribed on half-title page with regards of the Author. ; Signed by Author.
Published by Baker & Scribner, New York, 1849
First Edition
Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, rebound in half leather over cloth covered boards with 5 raised bands and gillt spine title and decoations to spine, shallow flaking at spine ends, light wear to edges, otherwise solid, a VG copy.
Published by New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849., 1849
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
8vo., (7 2/8 x 5 inches). (Some spotting). Original green cloth decorated in blind. Provenance: Penciled ownership inscriptions of A. Tucker on the recto of the first blank and the title-page; duplicate library stamp of Andover-Harvard Theological Library on the verso of the title-page; Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006) (Collection of Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography and Science). First edition. "The title- "Los Gringos" - .used in Californai and Mexico to designate the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon race; the definition of the word is somewhat similar to that of Greenhorns, in modern parlance, or Mohawks in the days of the Spectator. Although many of the scenes were passed in the those countries, yet the narrative takes a wider range, and embraces portions of the South American Continent in Brazil, Chili, and Peru, together with visits to some of the groups of the Pacific at the Sandwich, Marquesas and Society Islands" (Wise "Preface"). "An officer in the United States Navy, Wise served on board the razee (cut-down sailing ship-of-line) "Independent" during the Mexican War. He narrates his experiences on an expedition sailing from Boston around Cape Horn, bound for Mexico and California to fight in the war. From Boston, the ship sailed down the coast of the Americas, making port at Rio de Janeiro, La Plata, Tierra del Fuego, and then Valparaiso, after rounding the Horn. Upon reaching the Californian and Mexican coasts, the "Independent" and the troops she carried engaged in hostilities with the Mexicans until the end of the war. Wise recorded many details of the actual fighting as well as other general incidents relating to his acquaintance with the Mexican people and their ways. At the end of the war, the vessel returned to Boston, stopping at Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, and then Callao, before again rounding Cape Horn" (Hill 1902). Howes W593. Purchased at Christie's as part of a group lot, 17th April 2007, lot 509.