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Condition: As New. blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket, chart endpapers, 24 black and white illustrations, 1 fold-out plate showing the 32 different sails on the clipper ship Sea Serpent, 142 pp. This is the log of a sailor aboard the "extreme clipper" Sea Serpent. It covers the ship's voyage around the world starting February 24, 1854 and ending on February 16, 1855. The voyage started with the New York to San Francisco route. It then proceeded across the Pacific, via Hawaii, to Hong Kong and Shanghai. The return route took her around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans back to New York. An excellent day by day account of life aboard a great clipper ship as she plied the New York, San Francisco and China trade. The journal is even more interesting because the voyage intersects in the China Seas and Hong Kong with the Perry Expedition squadron which had just successfully completed the Japan Expedition. The Sea Serpent arrived at Hong Kong on August 21, 1854. Gregory noted that nine American naval ships were in the Hong Kong Harbor at that time (Mississippi, Susquehanna, Powhatan, Macedonian, Vincennes, Supply, John Hancock, Porpoise and J. Fenimore Cooper). Size: 8vo.…

Journal editor and writer (1800-89). 1 page, 8vo. Creased and slightly discoloured, but in good condition overall. Cover of envelope pasted to back, reading 'for | Rd Lehman Esq | Newmarket Road | Norwich'. Reads 'Dear Sir. | I much regret that I have been unable to avail myself of your kindness: I have been so over-run with Matter at this, the concluding, month of the year. | Sincerely | S C Hall.'.…

SVAN TITO ACHEN (1922-86) Argentinian-Danish writer and author on heraldry, co-founder of the Scandinavian Society of Heraldry (Societas Heraldica Scandinavica) and the first editor of the Scandinavian Heraldisk Tidskrift (Heraldry Journal) published in Denmark SYMBOLS AROUND US Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York u.a. 1. Auflage 1978, ERSTAUSGABE, 240 SS. gebunden (Hardcover gr. 8°, hellblaues Kunstleder mit Golddruck), gut erhalten DAZU : Kleine Karte mit eigenhändiger Widmung für Dr. Arnold Rablow, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert.…

" Where, at his loom, the artisan / Feels that his skill is worthy man." . Signed, "S.C.Hall" and dated The Rosery, Old Brompton, Sept. 29th 1845. On a single 8vo sheet of yellow paper mounted to a leaf from a Victorian album.