Henry Wise Lieut (9 results)

HB. No date given but looks to be around 1910 to 1920's vintage. VG in VG dustjacket with slight creasing around edges and small chips out of top and bottom of spine. Bright cover illustration in color of a pirate scene on a beach. Tight sound copy with strong hinges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Half leather over marbled boards; title gilt on spine. Front board is detached; boards have moderate shelfwear and rubbing; endpapers have light soiling, otherwise text block is clean. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 453 pp.

Cloth. Second printing. xvi, 453 pp. Sm. 8vo. Sabin notes that the second printing has the same imprints and collation as the first. Sabin 104892n. Howes W593. Spine ends worn, a few small splits at the upper joints, foxed throughout, signed Charles A. Gillette 1852 on free front endpaper, binding quite solid, overall a good to very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. first edition. 5 x 8 in. xvi, 453 pp. Brown publisher's cloth boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt spine titles. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers very clean, wear to corners with light bumping, wear and slight loss to both spiune ends. Binding tight. The paper used is fairly heavy so the text is thick, showing a couple pgs where the binding strings are visible but entitrely undamaged. No markings. Text has some foxing, light mostly, a handful of pgs heavier - overall perfectly readable. Naut. RGR.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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.

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.

First edition. Original black cloth, spotted and somewhat worn, joints worn and splitting with small tears. xvi, 453 pp. Library blindstamp on page 1. This is a fine contemporary narrative of a voyage to Mexico, California and beyond, with some descriptions of Hawaii and Polynesia. Howes W593.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. 19.5 x 13 cm. Sm 8vo. 453 pages. Grey cloth. Presentation copy signed by the author "Mr. Ames / With the / Kind regards of / the Author". Spine is faded. Originally published in 1849 by Baker and Scriber. One corner of rear boards bumped.

Hardcover. 1st 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.…