Captain David Porter (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1970. Republished. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated thick cloth covered boards. Facsimile reprint. Fold out chart. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Stained hinges. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Fold out remains in a fine condition. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Originally published in 1815. Gilt embossed front cover and spine. Slight markings to end pages, otherwise very good condition; a heavy book, pp 646. Size: 6.0 x 8.5 In.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 52 pages. 2 Peter Porter Poems 7 Gunar Harding Fabulous Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley 10 Josephine Clare Poems 12 Alan Riddle Bits of Concrete 14 Marilyn Hacker Elegy 16 Arthur Ellis Same Size 19 David Grubb Poems 22 Neagu'P Pictures 27 Dannie Abse Poem 29 Jim Burns Getting Together with My Friends 32 Anthony Edkins Arrested Developments 34 Gavin Ewart Voices From Overseas 39 Gavin Ewart Captain Blood 40 Daphne Richardson Poems 41 Tony Dash Small Press Pamphlets 43 Eluard Breton trans Irwin Limsky from The Immaculate Conception 48 Gavin Ewart Appearance and Reality 49 A. E. Dudley Poems Photograph on cover by Marvin Lichtner.

Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1822. Volume I: (VI), LXXVI, 246 PP, plus 5 b/w plates: 3 folded (1 table, 2 maps "Gallapagos Islands") & 2 engravings (Galapagos Turtle & Coastal views Galapagos Islands). Decorated cloth cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. The frigate used the Galapagos Islands as a base during the war of 1812, between the United States and Great Britain. Chapter X: departure for Washington Island (Nuku Hiva), Marquesas Islands.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 126 pp, 3 plates, includes fold out map. With Particular Details of the Gallipagos and Washington Islands. Modern day professionally re-bound hard cover book. New end papers. Slender book w/leather title label on the spine. Scarce.

In the original publisher's boards, uncut. Both volumes bound in one which I think is unusual for publisher's boards. Poor condition with too many flaws to describe so see the photos. All text appears to be present but only 4 of the called for 14 engravings are present. Other sellers note it is common for plates to be lacking. The folding map is present and all there but does have some closed tears. Very rare especially with the map.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 246 & 256 pages, folding maps, Very good hardcover matching set of 2 volumes.

Half-Leather. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original edition custom-bound in dark green 1/2 leather, green cloth, 5 raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. 126 pp., illus. w/ (3) engraved plates (frontis. portrait, cutaway views of islands opposite p. 5, capture of the Essex opposite p. 121), engraved folding map of Galapagos Islands opposite p. 35. Leather nicely preserved; offset tanning at corners of flyleaves. Accompanied by order of payment slip, approx. 8" x 4 1/2", signed by Porter, dated Washington, D.C., 25 Jan. 1820. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Full leather. Condition: Near fine. Second edition of the Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter, U.S.N., published in 1822. (illustrator). Second Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], lxxvi, 246pp; 256pp. Page 175 of Volume II misnumbered as 157. Bound in full sheepskin, rebacked. Spine decorated with gilt compartments, title in gilt on red and green morocco labels. Solid text blocks, foxing throughout, primarily reserved to endpapers. Contains seven plates between the two volumes: a frontispiece and one plate in Volume I and five plates in Volume II. Two near fine fold-out pieces in Volume I: one table of daily coordinates placing the location of the Essex and one map of the Galapagos Islands. (Hill, 239) (Howes P484) A clean, well-presenting example. Hill considers this second edition to be "the best edition and only complete edition," including Porter's Preface defending the first edition of the journal, numerous fold out maps, and the full narrative of Porter's experience throughout the War of 1812. This journal also served as a source piece for Herman Melville's Typee (1846).

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, 256 pages; VG; Quarter bound in modern brown leather patterned green paper boards; spine with gilt tooling, red label, slightly tanned; Textblock age-toned and moderately foxed, entirely untrimmed; Archival repairs to several closed tears at margins of pages; Complete with five plates; Volume 2 only; shelved case 9. Sabin 64219; The 1815 first edition was shorter and suppressed. 1349808. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.