Walker Commodore Vaughan (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Solid reading copy. Some water staining not affecting most of the text. Numerous pages are dog eared and paper edges soiled. Part of the Seafarers Library. Reprint of a work first published in 1760.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Stout 8vo. Pp. li; 219. Eight plates and two maps. Bound in textured paper-covered boards. Slight foxing to endpapers. Bookplate of noted Australiana collector Bernard Gore Brett on front pastedown, as well as the tag of an old Melbourne bookseller. A handsome copy. First published in 1760, Walker's work provides keen insight into the roiling world of the privateersman. A volume in the publisher's Seafarer's Library, edited by G. E. Manwaring.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. 1928 reprint edition of the 1760 original edition, and yet another fine contribution to the Seafarers' Library, General Editor being G.E. Manwaring. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover leatherette format, generally clean, moderately toned, moreso at outset, minimal rubbing to extremities, some light dust-soiling to page edges. Marbled brown leatherette with gilt spine titling. Dust jacket present, fully intact, not price-clipped, protected in Mylar, lightly soiled and worn, tide-lining and seemingly damp-stained to rear panel, though signs of neither odor nor moisture. Augmented with eight half-tone plates, including at frontis, and the two maps are present, sewn-in. Introduction by H.S. Vaughan. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.