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O'CONNELL, JAMES F. - A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being the Adventures of James F. O'Connell.

Boston, B.B. Mussey. 1841, 2nd Edition. Full-Leather, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book, xviii, 265 pages, small piece of leather missing at bottom of spine / corner of front cover, otherwise a nice copy. As a youth O'Connell found his way to Australia where he had contacts with convicts and aborigines. He was later cast away in the north of the continent, and in a subsequent voyage he was shipwrecked in the Caroline Islands, where he lived for five years with the natives. Second edition of this interesting narrative. Ferguson 3268. Hill 1250. Huntress 278C. A very scarce book. Unfortunately, this copy lacks the frontispiece. Otherwise clean and sound in original calf with spine label. Chip missing from bottom of backstrip. Good.
USD 280.00 [Appr.: EURO 238.5 | £UK 208.5 | JP¥ 41342] Book number 4513

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