Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1858. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine and edges of wrappers chipped. Ex-lib. from the New England Historic Genealogical Society, with blindstamp on titlepage, card bound in at end, and date inkstamped on wrappers and rear leaf. Apart from the chipping, a very good copy. Hitchcock.....
Philadelphia. [ 1855]. 232pp. plus plates. Frontis. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Head of spine a bit chipped. A bit tanned. Else very good. "In spite of the title, this work is concerned with description and travel, and relates the history of the Christian missions in Melanesia..." - Hill. The frontispiece.....
Canada & London. 1873. xiv,[2],371pp. plus sixty plates. Frontis. Original red gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down. Edges and spine ends frayed. Binding rather rough. Internally clean. Good. Detailed observations during the survey for a railroad route, with some sixty handsome plates of the area traversed. "The expedition.....
[N.p., likely London. ca. 1821]. Pen lithograph, printed on thick grey drawing paper, approximately 10 3/4 x 15 inches. Contemporary ink annotation at foot of sheet reading, "Rev'd. Mr. Rackett." Minor surface soiling to margins, a few tiny marginal repairs to verso. Very good. Untrimmed. A substantial, attractive, and rare.....
