Heading: (Presidents, 1933)
Author:
Title: Third Presidential Cruise of the U.S.S. Houston, 1938 [with] signed "Imperium Neptuni Regis" certificate
Place Published: [n.p.]
Publisher:Printed on board the U.S.S. Houston
Date Published: 1938
Description:

75 pp. Illustrated from photographs and text illustrations throughout. (4to) original blue wrappers lettered in gilt. With folded "Imperium Neptuni Regis" certificate laid in, illustrated in color, 39x53 cm (15x21").

The certificate, certifying the crossing of the equator on July 25, 1938, is signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and numerous others. Very scarce printed memorial of FDR's Third Presidential Cruise on the USS Houston, from the July 14 to August 9 1938, on his way to the Galapagos Islands. From the introduction: "Shortly after the cruise commenced certain members of the HOUSTON personnel conceived the idea of publishing a book which would relate graphically all of the interesting incidents happening on board our ship. We trust that the following pages will keep alive fond memories of a happy cruise with as grand a shipmate it has ever been our privilege to meet."

Light wear and soiling to wrappers; certificate with folds, soiling and light wear, clear tape at edges; very good.