Author: SEWALL, John S.
Title: The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1995. Hardcover. Edited by Arthur Power Dudden. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. cv, 291pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Tight and lovely copy of the 93rd title in R.R. Donnelley & Sons annual "Lakeside Classics" series of historical reprints. Reprint of the scarce 1905 edition, a firsthand account of the voyage of the U.S.S. Saratoga to the Far East where the ship later joined Commodore Matthew Perry's American Squadron. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

Keywords: Military History


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