SAMUEL, Charles Stewart (1795–1831). A Visit to

SAMUEL, Charles Stewart (1795–1831). A Visit to the South Seas in the U.S. Ship Vincennes… New York: Sleight & Robinson for John P. Haven, 1831. 2 volumes, 8vo. Contemporary embossed dark plum calf gilt, spine stamped in gilt and in blind, all edges marbled, gilt dentelles (spines sunned, extremities rubbed, joints tender, intermittent foxing). FIRST EDITION, of a Stewart’s firsthand account regarding Rio de Janeiro, the Cape Horn passage, Hawaii, etc. while aboard the Vincennes. Hill 1644.