Unpublished journal of Potomac’s round-the-world cruise - the first west-to-east circumnavigation of the globe by an American Navy ship - and the American attack on the Sumatran pirates of Quallah Battoo
Manuscript journal of the frigate Potomac’s round-the-world cruise
Largely shipboard and at sea: 1831-34. Folio (13" x 8½"); pp. [284]; original full calf, roll-tooled borders on covers, red morocco label on spine reading: "Journal," black morocco label on front cover reading: "S. B. Wilson. Lieut. U. S. Navy"; the binding is sound and the manuscript is in a...... More