FANNING, EDMUND. 1769-1841.
Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands.... New York: William Vermilye, 1838.
Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands.... New York: William Vermilye, 1838.
12mo. Lithograph frontispiece by Nathaniel Currier. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Rubbed, partially erased ownership inscription on title, foxing throughout.
FOURTH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "Presented by the author as a small friendly token of regard," on free front endpaper. Howes F-28; Sabin 23781
WITH: Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas 1792-1832. Portland, ME: The Marine Research Society, 1924. 8vo. 32 plates. Publisher's blue cloth, pale blue pictorial dust jacket. A 20th century reprint of the above, under a slightly revised title. Spence 456.
After the 1833 publication of Fanning's Voyages Round the World, an updated version was published as Voyages to the South Seas.... in 1838. It recounts the same expedition, but contains original material, and was marked as the Second Edition. Howes notes five editions in 1838, with the same imprint and date.
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Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands.... New York: William Vermilye, 1838.
Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands.... New York: William Vermilye, 1838.
12mo. Lithograph frontispiece by Nathaniel Currier. Original patterned cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Rubbed, partially erased ownership inscription on title, foxing throughout.
FOURTH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author "Presented by the author as a small friendly token of regard," on free front endpaper. Howes F-28; Sabin 23781
WITH: Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas 1792-1832. Portland, ME: The Marine Research Society, 1924. 8vo. 32 plates. Publisher's blue cloth, pale blue pictorial dust jacket. A 20th century reprint of the above, under a slightly revised title. Spence 456.
After the 1833 publication of Fanning's Voyages Round the World, an updated version was published as Voyages to the South Seas.... in 1838. It recounts the same expedition, but contains original material, and was marked as the Second Edition. Howes notes five editions in 1838, with the same imprint and date.
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