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Lot 722

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$300 - 400
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[SHIPWRECKS - AMERICAN]. A group of 7 19th-century works about American Shipwrecks, comprising: 


1.
ELLMS, Charles, compiler. Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea. New York: Richard Marsh, 1836. Octavo. Illustrated. Original cloth (repairs). 

2.
Wreck of the Glide, with Recollections of the Fijiis and of Wallis Island. New York and London: Wiley & Putnam, 1848. Octavo. Illustrated. Original cloth (repairs). 

3.
BINGLEY, Thomas. Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea. Boston: Tappan, Whittemore & Mason, 1851. 12mo. Original cloth (dampstained). 

4.
COOPER, W. H. Incidents of Shipwreck; or the Loss of the San Francisco. Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1855. 12mo. Original cloth (rebacked). 

5.
Old Ironside. The Story of a Shipwreck. Salem and Cleveland: D. B. Brooks & Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1855. 12mo. Illustrated. Original cloth (rebacked). 
6.

BOLTON, John. An Account of the Loss of the American Clipper Ship Tontine. Pittsburgh: Callow & Co., 1861. Octavo. Modern cloth; original glossy wrappers bound in. 

7. 
CROZIER, E. A. The Wreck of the "Somerset". Provincetown: Press of the Provincetown Advocate, 1886. 8vo. Modern quarter leather; original front wrapper bound in. 

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