The Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea; containing Thrilling Narratives and Adventures of Ocean Life in All Countries, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Auburn & Buffalo: Alden, Beardsley & Co, 1854. Octavo (21cm). Two volumes in one. Green cloth, titled and decorated on spine in gilt; yellow endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-336pp; frontispiece, 6 wood engravings on inserted leaves and additional in-text wood engravings. Straight and stable, but much rubbed, spine gilt dulled, spots to cloth, boards exposed at corners, foxed: Good. Uncommon (9 copies recorded in OCLC).