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Signed with inscription by the author
Signed with inscription by the author
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Author: Erskine, Charles
Title: Twenty Years before the Mast: With the More Thrilling Scenes and Incidents while Circumnavigating the Globe under the Command of the Late Admiral Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Published by the Author
Date Published: 1890
Description:


x, 311 pp. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (8vo) green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. First Edition.



Signed by the author on a preliminary blank with the inscription "K. Butterworth / With Regards of the Author Charles Erskine" In a different hand is the note "Died December 24, 1900 'He giveth them their desired haven'".

Condition
Rubbing with fraying at spine ends with a slight tear to cloth at head of spine; some stains and soil to cloth, light edge and corner wear; remnants of a bookplate on front pastedown with offsetting to front free endpaper; hinges cracked, leaves toned with a few spots; about very good.
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Signed with inscription by the author

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