1848 Voyage Round the World Taylor USS Columbia CHINA India Brazil Illustrated

1848 Voyage Round the World Taylor USS Columbia CHINA India Brazil Illustrated

 

Fitch Waterman Taylor was a 19^th-century American minister and seaman. He was appointed a chaplain in the U.S. Navy in 1841, a position he maintained until his death in 1865. While in the Navy, he made a voyage around the world on the USS Columbia in 1838 and published the events of this voyage in “A Voyage Round the World”.

 

This work is filled with several wood-engravings and descriptions of ports of call in Brazil, Arabia, India, China, Siam, Hawaii, Tahiti, Chile and Peru. Features two frontispieces – Bombardment of Muckie and Emperor of China.

 

Item number: #1842

Price: $399

 

TAYLOR, Fitch W.

 

A voyage round the world, and visits to various foreign countries, in the United States frigate Columbia : attended by her escort the sloop of war John Adams, and commanded by Commodore George C. Read …

 

New-Haven : H. Mansfield ; New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1848.

 

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1:
  • Vol I: 317p
  • Vol II: 332 (i.e. 650)
  • Illustrated throughout, including 4 full-page engravings
• Provenance: Handwritten – P. Stafford
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

 

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