Mgavin Rev James (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Early reprint. 98pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the spine, and embossed designs on the boards. Ex-library (The People's Circulating Library), with neat markings to the preliminary pages. The cloth at the spine ends is chipped, and the boards are moderately rubbed. The book is very sturdy. An 1840s shipwreck survival story, originally published in Edinburgh in 1845.

Hardcover. Condition: Good + overall. Second American edition. A Narrative of the Loss of the Brig Australia by fire on her Voyage from Leith to Sydney with an account of the Sufferings, Religious Exercises & Final Rescue of the Crew & Passengers. 12mo, vii, 98 pp. Orig. brown cloth covers, dusty & bumped, o/w good. Covers embossed with ornamental shield, Carter's Cabinet Library, Fourth Series. Internally, damp marks at tops of early pages, publisher's agent label inside front cover. Scarce early American edition of the original Scotch publication of 1845. Ferguson 4093 (1845) ed. only, without a listing for this US imprint. Trove 47759813.

xx (illustrator). 12mo. 81, (1) pp. This is the Australian reprint of a shipwreck account of the brig "Australia," which was bound for Sydney in 1844. She caught fire off the Cape of Good Hope, and the crew put off in two boats, bound for shore 600 miles away. They underwent considerable hardship - rationed to only 3 tablespoons of water per day. Several passengers died, but ultimately they reached an island in the vicinity of Cape Town, from which they were rescued. A lively account, though with a heavy dose of religion, and scarce. Not in Huntress. Very good condition in brown cloth with gold cover lettering.

Hard Cover. 16mo. Original dark green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering. Early edition. 98pp.+10pp. of ads in rear. Covers edge-worn. Very light interior foxing. Good. Uncommon.