[SPENCE, JOHN, Jr., MD]

Ship and shore: or, pencil sketches on a recent voyage to, and a tour in, old England. By a young physician

Boston: S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 148; original brown printed wrappers; front wrapper loosening, some staining, spine ends a little chipped; all else very good. This copy is inscribed to "Dr. Christie with the respects of William P. Spence." Includes some interesting chapters on the London Hospitals, the Foundling Hospital, Greenwich Hospital, and English poverty. "First published in the Christian Watchman ... under the signature of Concordia" (preface). Not so common: only 10 in OCLC. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. Item #30267

Price: $275.00