This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... memory ended not with his funeral: a subscription was raised by the admiral, the officers, and the seamen of the fleet; and the stone which covers the body of poor Lang records his worth, and is a monument indicative of the gratitude of his friends, and the remembrance he deserved. I have in this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... memory ended not with his funeral: a subscription was raised by the admiral, the officers, and the seamen of the fleet; and the stone which covers the body of poor Lang records his worth, and is a monument indicative of the gratitude of his friends, and the remembrance he deserved. I have in this chapter not been very particular as to time. Lang's death took place long after the anecdotes mentioned previously, and before I assumed my captain's rank. I must take the reader to a part of the world very little understood in England, and likely to be as nice a drain upon her wealth, as once was the famed Mississippi, or the pearl-diving speculation in the Colorado river. CHAPTER XXV. It was on that day which left the king of Spain without one foot of territory (with the exception of Calloa) in the New World, that I landed at Vera Cruz. Our passage in the Lively had been short and pleasant. To avoid the shot and shell which every now and then passed between the hostile parties, the frigate was anchored off the island of Sacrificios. The near view from the anchorage is not very enticing; for Vera Cruz stands on low ground, and the country around the city is not in high cultivation; but the distant mountains of the Perote -- the snow-capped Orizava, which rises 17,000 feet above the level of the sea, the grandeur, the magnificence of nature, make ample amends for the dilapidation of the works of art, or the destruction occasioned by man. The fort of St. Juan d'Ulloa still resisted, and had resisted for six years all approaches of the Mexicans. It is built upon an island, about a quarter of a mile from the city of Vera Cruz, and forms the protection of the harbour of that name. For months previously to my arrival the city had been daily and...
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Very Good. Size: 8x6x1; Kessinger Publishing; city not noted, 2007. Trade paperback. Facsimile Edition. Very Good, binding sturdy and intact, trace handling/scuff marks and sunning to covers, mild cover edge/corner wear, bumped to spine edge corners, few scuff and smudge marks to text block edges, a nice, clean and unmarked copy in wraps. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 394pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Very Good. "New edition", 1839 (an early edition--first was 1832). This copy has an engraved frontispiece, engraved titlepage, and a printed titlepage--these pages are not prefaced by a page stating Bentley's Standard Library of Popular Modern Literature and a blank page. Rebound in leather-backed marbled boards, black spine label, gilt title on spine, 397 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, general age-toning to the pages, discoloration to the spine, light rubbing and wear to the edges of the covers including some loss, no dust jacket. We have housed the book in mylar. Chamier recounts Lord Byron's second attempt at swimming across the Hellespont.
