Item #20522 Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: With an Account of Her Wreck, and the Sufferings and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha. Alexander M. Greig.
Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: With an Account of Her Wreck, and the Sufferings and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha

Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: With an Account of Her Wreck, and the Sufferings and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha

New York: William H. Colyer, 1847. Decorative Cloth. The 1847 1st edition, IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL CHOCOLATE-BROWN CLOTH. Solid and VG- to VG, with light wear along the outer hinges, mild chipping at the spine ends (especially the spine crown) and light soiling and dusting to the panels, which also boast lovely decorative blindstamping. Patterned endsheets and pastedowns, which, as well as the preliminaries, have taken on pronounced foxing. The text itself surprisingly clean, crisp ansazd bright. 12mo, dramatic engraved frontispiece ("The foraging party attacking the Sea Elephant"), lithography by G. Snyder of New York. Very Good -. Item #20522

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