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Lot 3019: CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD.

Est: $800 USD - $1,200 USD
BonhamsNew York, NY, USJune 10, 2009

Item Overview

Description

A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812; in Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, Were Visited. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1816. [3]-288 pp., without half-title. Folding engraved map, partially hand-colored. 8vo (225 x 130 mm). Later half calf. First few leaves detached, light browning, binding rubbed.

First edition. During a trading voyage to Alaska, Campbell's vessel was wrecked on the island of Sannack. The sailor lost both his feet to frostbite, but eventually made his way to Hawaii, where he remained from 1809-1810 (an appendix contains a Hawaiian vocabulary). Campbell set up the first sail-making loom on the island. Howes C-88; Sabin 10210; Streeter sale 2418.

Auction Details

Books and Manuscripts

by
Bonhams
June 10, 2009, 12:00 PM EST

580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US