Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED (WAR OF 1812.) Porter, David. Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean . . . in the United States Frigate Essex. Map, 8 plates, folding table, plus added plates and manuscripts as described below. [2], lxxvi, 246, [4], 256 pages. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, early 1/4 calf, moderate wear, rejointed; minor foxing, map reinforced on verso, repaired tear on second title page; list of extra illustrations on front free endpaper, bookplate of Pacific anthropologist James Edge Partington on front pastedown. New York, 1822
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Second American (and best) edition. Captain Porter was assigned to capture British whaling vessels in the Pacific. It was the first American naval mission to the Pacific, and a great success. Hill praises the introduction added to this edition, and notes that it is "the only complete edition, generally regarded as the best one." Forbes 558; Hill 1373; Howes P484 ("aa"); Sabin 64219.
This copy is extra-illustrated with: a clipped Porter signature laid down on the frontispiece An undated Autograph Note Signed by Porter reading "To Mr. Cohen with the comp'ts of Com'r Porter" 1915 letter about the book by Everard im Thurn 2 engraved portraits of Porter, and one of Joseph Ingraham Letterpress broadside titled "Catalogue Sale of the Library of Commodore D. Porter," 18 x 10 1/4 inches, archival repair along one fold, [1853].