FREGATTEN NORRKÖPINGS EXPEDITION 1861-1862. [with:] LITHOGRAFISKA SKIZZER FRAN FREGATTEN NORRKÖPINGS EXPEDITION TILL AMERIKA OCH WESTINDIEN 1861-62

Govenius, Johan Oskar Laurentius

Verlag: Goteborg and Stockholm, 1863

Text volume: [4],476pp. Volume of plates: 40pp. plus twelve lithographic plates (including frontispiece), five of them tinted, one colored. 12mo text: Contemporary three-quarter calf and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Moderate shelf wear. Scattered foxing and tanning. Overall very good. Oblong quarto atlas: Original pictorial front wrapper bound into modern blue morocco, gilt (rear wrapper lacking). Bookplate on front pastedown. Front wrapper and a few plates modestly tanned, offsetting onto titlepage. Very good. The complete account, including the rare volume of lithographs illustrating travels of the Swedish frigate, Norrköping, to Swedish possessions in the West Indies and visits to North American cities. The Norrköping was sent to protect Swedish shipping during the American Civil War. The author was the ship minister on this cruise. The fine lithographic views illustrate the frigate at sea as well as an American steamship, and the first published view of Gustavia on St. Bart's, where the ship called on Sweden's only overseas colony. The author appears to have been much taken by the theatrical and musical atmosphere of Boston, and includes three plates illustrating dancers and singers with their minstrels. Govenius' detailed text issued a year before is also included here. "Excellent chapters on Boston and on American women and family life" - Larson. Not in Sabin. The NUC locates only two copies of the lithographic volume (Yale and New York State Library) and two copies of the text volume (Yale and Newberry Library), and Larson adds a copy of the text at the University of Texas. LARSON 262, 263. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM30266

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Titel: FREGATTEN NORRKÖPINGS EXPEDITION 1861-1862. ...
Verlag: Goteborg and Stockholm
Erscheinungsdatum: 1863