* 2 vols.
(Exploration.) Porter, Captain David. Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean ... United States Frigate Essex in 1812, 1813, and 1814. New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1822.

2nd ed, with additions. 8vo, contemp speckled calf, gilt, spines gilt, marbled endpapers & edges; lightly scuffed, joints often rubbed. With frontis portrait, 7 plates, fold chart of the Gallapagos; lacking the fold table. Light to moderate spotting & dust soiling to titles, front matter & first few signatures of both vols. Paper wound at foot of "Advertisement to the First Edition" - no loss of ptg. Most plates generally clean, fold chart clean & intact. Bookplates on front paste-downs.
Howes P-484; Sabin 64219.