This stunning volume relates the full story of the youthful Captain Bolt's audacious fur-trading expedition from Newport, Rhode Island aboard the sloop-rigged Union.
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This stunning volume relates the full story of the youthful Captain Bolt's audacious fur-trading expedition from Newport, Rhode Island aboard the sloop-rigged Union.
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Hewitt R Jackson. Tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good in edgeworn, Very Good- jacket. 136pp, oblong quarto. illustrated by Hewitt R Jackson, signed by illustrator.
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Hewitt R Jackson. Tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good in edgeworn, in mylar cover, Very Good- jacket. 136pp, oblong quarto. illustrated by Hewitt R Jackson, signed by illustrator and author Edmund Hayes.
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Jackson, Hewitt R. Fine. Book First edition. Oblong quarto. xxxvii, 136, [2]pp. Edited by Edmund Hayes. 49 maps, plans, drawings and watercolors (1 in color) by Hewitt R. Jackson as well as Boit's own drawings. Extensive notes. Printed in red and black. White cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket slightly foxed). John Boit was the nineteen year old master of the sloop Union, whose circumnavigation of the globe was preparatory to a well-financed New England fur-trading expedition to the Pacific Northwest and China. His journal of that voyage forms the basis of this attractively printed and designed book.