Captain Charles Bishop (9 results)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. The title story is about silver mining in Virginia City, Nevada - but this includes a lot more, as the subtitle indicates. Includes a frontispiece., and over 200 illustrations by W.L. Sheppard, Frank Merrill and others. 261 pp plus a final illustration. Slightly oversized. Good only in original red cloth with gilt panels and a stamped illustration on the front cover - wear to the covers, some spine slant, corners bumped, etc. (the blank pages at the beginning and end were used for arithmetic problems - in pencil).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Edited by Michael Roe. Two fold-out maps. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. B001Y5GMGQ.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. lvi,342pp, b/w plates, foldout map. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hakluyt Society publication No. CXXXI, Second Series. Edited by Michael Roe. lvi, 342pp. One plate, 6 maps (2 folding). Notes, bibliography, index. Gilt-lettered and decorated light blue cloth. A very fine and crisp copy with printed dust jacket. A trading voyage to the Pacific, American west coast, Pacific islands and the East indies, primarily to procure otter furs from the Indians and then to sell them in Canton. The interest in this account is the commerial and domestic detail of what must have been a relatively commonplace voyage, far from the glamour of the sponsored explorers expeditions. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cambridge, The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Octavo, lvi, 342 pages plus a frontispiece and 6 maps (including a large folding map at the rear). Cloth; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned and marked, with a short closed tear. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Number 131.

Edited by Michael Roe. Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1967. Second Series, No. CXXXI. *In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America, with instructions to procure otter furs from the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via Japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific Coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. pp. lvi, 341, [1]. with half-title. frontis. & 5 maps (2 folding). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth. dw. (dw. little stained & chipped).