This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...several passengers came on board, viz.: Mr Barons, late Collector, Major Grant, Mr Barons'footman, and Mrs. Cruthers, the purser's wife, a native of New England. After some considerable dispute, I had my lodgings fixed in Mr Pearson's berth, where Master Robant, Mr Barons' man, and I agreed to lie together in one large ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...several passengers came on board, viz.: Mr Barons, late Collector, Major Grant, Mr Barons'footman, and Mrs. Cruthers, the purser's wife, a native of New England. After some considerable dispute, I had my lodgings fixed in Mr Pearson's berth, where Master Robant, Mr Barons' man, and I agreed to lie together in one large hammock." Such were the accomodations of the petty officers' mess on board a twenty-gun ship of 1760 in the New England service. Jacob Bailey crossed the Atlantic in a heavily armed ship, in every sense a war vessel. At the same time, as before and after, there were packet ships making voyages at regular intervals and bringing from England the great variety of manufactured products required by a Province that was growing in wealth. These packet ships also carried passengers and sailing on somewhat regular schedules depended upon a profit made from freight and passage money rather than from cargoes shipped by their owners. In 1762, a line of "pacquet sloops" was plying weekly between Newport, R. I. and New York, "to transport Passengers and merchandize... Every Cabin Passenger, one Pistole, Steerage ditto, Two Dollars.... a Two Wheel Carriage, one Pistole; a Horse or Cow, one Pistole. All Baggage as Customary." Letters were delivered at the Post Office at four pence each. The freight on cask goods was thirty-two shillings a ton; bar iron was sixteen shillings a ton; rum, eight shillings a hogshead; and butter, nine pence a firkin. After the War of 1812 several lines of packet ships were established sailing from Boston and New York, making quick passages and furnishing comfortable cabin accommodations for passengers. In 1837, the cabin passage from New York to Liverpool cost $140. which included "provisions, wines, ...
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Fine. Large 8vo. 66pp + the illustrations of over 300 ships from artworks. List of ship painiters. Other illustrations. Crisp unread condition. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years.
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Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Shelf wear. Fading to spine. Clean, unmarked pages. 66 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, illustrations, 181 plates, 26 cm.
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Very Good. 1922. Cloth, dj, small quarto, 66 pp. + 308 illustrations. Dj sunned at spine. Edge-wear to dj with small tears, chipping, and loss. Some soiling to dj. Minor foxing, per usual, to fore-edge of text block and end papers. Previous owner inscription to ffep. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good. (Subject: Nautical. )
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 66pp., ill., addenda and corrigenda, biblio., 308 images on plates hors-texte. 1953 reprint as Publication Number One of the Marine Research Society, Salem, Mass., of the 1922 original. Light wear.
