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1868847London: Pr. by C. Roworth & Sons for the Church Institution 1868. 8vo. 8 pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume. Foxed. Pr. by C. Roworth & Sons for the Church Institution unknown books
190090465New York: Abbey Press 1900. Reprint of original New London edition of 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. 163 30p. Original Turquoise cloth. 20cm. Some cover spotting. Gift inscription dated 1901 on front endpaper. No jacket. Reprint of the 1828 edition. The Globe was a whaling ship from Nantucket. Lay and Hussey were the only survivors among the nine mutineers who had become stranded on these islands now known as the Mili Atoll -- the other seven were killed by the local inhabitants. <br/><br/> Abbey Press hardcover books
1836WRCLIT81698Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter . 1836. 18pp. plus blank. Sewn printed wrapper. Edges a bit dust tanned small sliver chip from fore-edge of last leaf otherwise very good. First edition. With the faint round former ownership stamp of Oxford bibliographer and collector Falconer Madan. The '3' in the imprint date at a glance resembles an '8' thus resulting in entries under both 1836 and 1886 in OCLC. The printer died in 1871 and the copies at Oxford Cambridge etc are catalogued under the earlier and almost certainly correct date. COPAC notes: "Published in response to the massive programme of 'Waterloo' church building controlled by the Commission for Building New Churches between 1818 and 1857." OCLC: 244986768. Printed by W. Baxter ... unknown books
185335219NY: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society 1853. 12mo. 65 pp. Original printed cream wrappers some wear at extremities. Very good. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. The author was a native of Madison County Alabama and is described on the title page here as a "Presbyter of Alabama." This edition is scarce; OCLC locates two copies Transylvania Virginia. Not in Owen two other works by Lay are described. <br/><br/> General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society unknown books
184358240Albany: published by George Jones Museum Building. Burgess and Stringer and M.Y. Beach New York. Redding and Co. Boston: G.B. Zeiber i.e. Zieber Philadelphia. Wm. Taylor Baltimore 1843. 8vo pp. iv 116; original printed green wrappers; neatly rebacked; small piece missing from the front of the front wrapper else very good. Printed by Joel Munsell Albany. This is the first separate publication by Squire who became a prominent archaeologist and a prolific author. Lust citing the London edition of the same year which was published without the Squire contribution: "Good deal of observation firm believer in the superiority of "Graeco-Hebraic" civilization for a free opium market." Lust 48; Cordier Sinica 77. <br/><br/> published by George Jones, Museum Building. Burgess and Stringer, and M.Y. Beach, New York. Redding and Co. Boston: G.B. Zeiber unknown books
182810636812mo. New-London: Lay and Hussey 1828. 12mo i-v vi-x 11-168 pp. Contemporary sheep neatly rebacked with gilt-ruled backstrip and red morocco label boards a little scraped foxing throughout light dampstaining scattered annotations in pencil and occasionally contemporary ink. Early ownership inscription on front free endpaper. § First edition of the first hand account of “one of the goriest mutinies in Pacific History†Hill lead by Samuel Comstock aboard the Nantucket whaling ship the Globe. Four officers were brutally murdered and the rest of the crew forced on pain of death to join the mutineers. After a failed attempt to conquer Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands the crew sailed to the Mulgrave Islands where Comstock was killed by his fellow mutineers part of the crew escaped in the ship to Valparaiso and the rest were killed by the locals but for Lay and Hussey who were rescued by a U.S. schooner. Concludes with “A Vocabulary of Words and Phrases Used by the Mulgrave Islanders. Rare in good condition. Forbes 697. Howes L-158. Hill p.176. Sabin 39467. Lay and Hussey hardcover books
182840609New London: Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey 1828. 168 pp. <br /><br />First edition. This important narrative relates the bloody mutiny and murders perpetrated by harpooner and boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who was himself murdered by natives on Mili Atoll. Lay and Hussey were the only survivors of this incident and were later rescued by Lieut. Paulding of the U.S. schooner "Dolphin." Pages evenly tanned. Water stain in lower corner of first third of book. Bound in original calf rebacked to match with red spine label. For a detailed account of this wild adventure I hope you will read my book "Demon of the Waters" now available as a Kindle read on Amazon. Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey books
1828WRCAM36145New London: Lay and Hussey 1828. 168pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf spine label lacking. Top and bottom of spine worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear free endpaper: "Dartmouth the 22 day 1832. Alma Bullou her book." Browning and foxing one signature starting a few minor marginal tears including one in titlepage not affecting text of titlepage but loss of a few letters on verso. Front free endsheet excised. Good. An important firsthand narrative of one of the most infamous mutinies in American naval history compiled by two of the few survivors of the event itself and its aftermath. The Globe was taken over near the Line Islands four of the officers were murdered and the remainder of the crew were forced by pain of death to join the mutineers. The crew then proceeded to the Marshall Islands and thence to the Mulgrave Islands where the leader of the original mutiny was killed and some of the party escaped to Valparaiso. Lay and Hussey remained on the Mulgrave Islands and were the sole survivors of an attack on their party by natives. They were eventually rescued by a war vessel sent in pursuit of the mutineers. HOWES L158. SABIN 39467. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3386. HILL 990. FORBES 697. Lay and Hussey unknown books
1824WRCAM26137New York 1824. Folding map 51 x 51 inches Backed on linen as issued. Significant foxing. Original portfolio of boards with roan spine expertly rebacked. In a cloth clamshell box leather label. Styled "second edition." Handsome large- scale early map of New York State and part of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Canada. Boundaries outlined in color with notes on roads forts ironworks and Indian villages. Lay was one of the most important cartographers working in New York and Pennsylvania at the time. hardcover books
