[WHALING] | A Group of Six First Editions

[WHALING] 

A Group of Six First Editions

Coulter, John. Adventures in the Pacific. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845. 8vo. Publisher's advertisements at end; some foxing. Blue cloth covered boards, yellow endpapers; rebacked, rubbed and soiled. First edition of Coulter's journal, which contains chapters about the Falklands, Chile, Juan Fernandez, Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tuamotu Archipelago, and Tahiti. Hill (2004) 385; Sabin 17142 — Hall, Daniel Weston. Arctic Rovings: Or, the Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land. Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1861. 12mo. Lithograph portrait frontispiece, publisher's advertisements at end, some toning and staining. Original full brick textured cloth, covers bordered in blind with central ship device also in blind, yellow coated endpapers; overall rubbed with minor loss to head and tail of spine. First edition. An account of a 15-year old's adventures aboard a whaling ship. Forbes 2422; Sabin 29745 — [Hart, Joseph C]. Miriam Coffin or the Whale-Fishermen: A Tale. New York: Carvill; Philadelphia: Carey & Hart; Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1834. 2 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles, 8pp printed music in Vol. I; some foxing, ownership inscriptions to titles. Original full purple cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine labels; overall rubbed, some fading, corners bumped, spines sunned, some splitting to spines. First edition of America's first whaling novel. Fullerton 128; Wright 1: 1133 — Laing, John. An Account of a Voyage to Spitzbergen. London: J. Mawman, 1815. 8vo. A few stray spots, some offsetting. Half brown calf over marbled boards, edges marbled; about half of spine lacking, rubbed. First edition — Lecomte, Jules. Pratique de la Peche de la Baleine Dans les Mers du Sud. Paris: Lecointe et Pougin, 1833. 8vo. Half title, title vignette by Dujardin; some foxing, dampstaining to preliminary leaves. Contemporary marbled boards, gilt morocco spine; spine rubbed With contemporary review to endpaper. First edition of this practical treatise on whaling in the South Seas by the editor of Le Navigateur. — Sampson, Alonzo D. Three Times Around the World. Buffalo: Express printing Company, 1867. 8vo. Foxed, title-page neatly repaired. Original full black cloth, covers ruled in blind, upper cover with central ship ornament in gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down, edges rubbed. First edition of Sampson's account, which includes stops in Hawaii, other spots in the South Pacific, and the Pacific Northwest. Forbes 2769 

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