Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, On Board An American Frigate

  • Detroit: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853
By WILLIS, N. Parker
Detroit: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853. Octavo (21cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind on boards and in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; [xvii],[14]-396pp. A sturdy copy with mild wear to edges, spine sunned, neat restoration at head, scattered mild foxing: around Very Good.

Travel writings by the highest-paid magazine writer of the era. This title is a "Reprint of material extracted from Pencillings by the Way, 1844, with a new 'Preface'" (BAL). This is the uncommon Detroit imprint, not noted in BAL (which records New York and Auburn imprints). Cf. BAL 22821.

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