Description
First edition of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, attributed to John Graham Dalyell, published in 1812.
Octavo, [three volumes], xix, [1], 448pp; viii, [1], 516pp; x, 515pp, [1]. Full leather, covers acid-washed for a unique pattern. Thin gilt trim along edges. Five raised bands, title in gilt on morocco label affixed to spine. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Riviere & Sons, with bindery imprint on verso of front endpaper. Bookplate of American industrialist, Hugh J. Chisholm, on front pastedown of each volume. Solid text block, light wear to edges and corners, faint soiling to first few leaves of each volume. (Sabin 80537) Complete with two fold-out maps, at front and rear of Volume I, depicting the east and west hemispheres.
This work is an account of the loss of His Majesty’s ship Litchfield, Captain Barton, of “Fifty guns on the coast of Barbary,” on November 30, 1758. There is also an account of the shipwreck of the Countess de Bourk, off the coast of Algiers.
