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(JOHNSTONE, CHRISTIAN ISOBEL). LIVES AND VOYAGES OF DRAKE, CAVENDISH, AND DAMPIER: Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea; and the History of the Bucaneers.
Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1831, First edition. , Rebound in later pebbled green cloth with gilt spine title, 12mo (4.5 x 7 inches), 461pp. Edges untrimmed. 3 engraved portrait plates by Horsburgh. Pagination includes 4-page publisher's catalogue at front. Upper corner of covers dampstained, not affecting pages, first page of catalogue mounted on stub and with some loss to text at bottom of gutter. Published anonymously, this history is the work of Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), a Scot, and a prolific and popular writer - of fiction, history, juveniles, and a cook book - who seems to have been largely ignored by the compilers of reference books. She is not in Allibones, the Oxford Companion to English Literature, or Haycraft & Kunitz
Offered for US$ 90.00 by: Chanticleer Books - Book number: 14853
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