Sailing directions for the east coast of North America, from Boston to the Mississippi
London: Charles Wilson (late J. W. Norie & Wilson,) publisher of charts and nautical works, &c. at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy, 157, Leadenhall Street, E.C., n.d., [ca. 1878]. 3 volumes in 1, each part with a separate title page; 8vo, pp. [4], 24*; iv, 38 [2]; [4]; 56; original blue printed wrappers; spine chipped with small loss at the extremities, otherwise very good. A composite volume, beginning with an Appendix. Description of the Banks Situate between Cape Sable and Cape Cod to the Eastward of Boston; followed by Sailing Directions for the East Coast of North America, from the Peninsula of Cape Cod to Philadelphia (title page dated 1873); followed by Sailing Directions for the East Coast of North America, from Delaware to the Gulf of Florida, &c. (title page dated 1877). These three volumes, originally issued separately in 1866, 1873, and 1877 respectively, were issued together by Charles Wilson as a cost-saving, composite volume, likely as a way to use up unsold sheets. With ads for charts for sale by Wilson on inside and out back wrapper, and inside front wrapper, plus on 3 full pages in the text. Illinois and NYPL only in OCLC. Item #58196
Price: $500.00
