[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, tape repair to spine; some staining, all else very good. 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 #37276

Price: $150.00