Lieutenant Archer (2 results)

Condition: Good. 12mo, 18 pp, includes three other short articles and a section of Pleasing Jests; lacks paper wrappers, extraction roughness at spine and margins cut down with no letters touched. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

London: Thomas Tegg, (1810). "The Phoenix was one of thirteen ships of the Royal Navy lost in a terrible hurricane about October, 1780. The ship was helpless in the storm and just as it was feared that she would founder she struck on the coast of Cuba. Most of the crew, about 250, were rescued. Most of the other ships lost had no survivors. Archer's lively letter to his mother gives many details of the cruise and wreck" - Huntress 143 C. De Laval was shipwrecked off the Maldives and spent ten years there before returning to France. The "Phoenix" account was reprinted by Tegg, with De Laval's account added. This is listed as 153C in Huntress, and is the edition being offered here. Bound in old marbled wraps, with dramatic folding frontispiece (a Tegg staple) partially rebacked. 18 cm. 28 pp. b/w folding aquatint frontispiece.