THIRTY YEARS FROM HOME, OR A VOICE FROM THE MAIN DECK BEING THE EXPERIENCE OF SAMUEL LEECH

Boston: John M. Whittemore, 1847. Fifteenth edition. Hardcover. 305pp. Good+ condition. Brown boards with gilt titling to spine are well shelfworn with some wear-through to fabric at extremities. One front endpaper missing, the other with a pencillled name. Foxing to endpapers. Main text block is clean (scattered light foxing) and unmarked, square and securely bound. Leech "was for six years in the British and American Navies; was captured in the British Frigate Macedonian;  afterwards entered the American Navy, and was taken in the United Stes Brig Syren by the British ship Medway." (cfm)