Pentecost Capt Ernest (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. (w/o dj) A clean tightly bound hardcover copy without jacket. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the boards. A really nice copy overall.

386pp. 8vo Illustrated in black and white Black cloth Reprint of 1927 Marine Research Society edition Light cover soil, else clean tight bright copy: VG/VG- dj with large tears.

Condition: FINE. First printing. A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which continued even after it was prohibited by law. Among the topics covered are The Guinea Coast; Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader; the Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693; The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London; The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers; Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days; Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool; Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels and more. Publication Number 15 of the Marine Research Society. 50 black and white illustrations and maps, index. xxxv, 349 pp plus a 1 pp. list of their publications. Very near fine in black cloth with gilt titling to the spine - a large and heavy book, one upper corner slightly bumped.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Thus. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1927. First thus. Heavy 8vo. Cloth binding, 349 pp. Ex-library with mark to spine, no pocket, very minimal marking. Light tanning around photographs. A just about very good copy of this dark and disturbing collection of documents and images. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Rear cover with some light offset from white shelving otherwise this copy would be fine. A whisper of foxing to fore edge of text block. Previous owner's name, F R Lord, on front flyleaf. Publication number 15 from the Marine Research Society. Contents very clean and tight. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine lightly sunned. Bookplate of Fred R. Lord on front and back paste downs additionally signed F. R. Lord on blank end paper. Lord was a prominent 20th century Maine book collector. A very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First Edition. Very good Hardcover, 394 pages +index, 45 illustrations, maps, and charts.

First edition of the second book published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts. Large octavo, bound in three quarter morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, cartographic endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece. In fine condition. The second volume published by the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts, The Pirates of the New England Coast contains accounts of the beginnings of English piracy and the famed pirates Dixey Bull, John Rhodes, Thomas Pound, William Kidd, John Quelch, Samuel Bellamy, John Phillips, and Henry Morgan, among others.