Item #000012561 The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty's Ship Nisus. Captain W. H. Smyth.
The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty's Ship Nisus

The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty's Ship Nisus

London: John Murray, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xv, [2], 2-340, [2] pp. Half later smooth brown calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gold. Cornewall, University of Toronto, British Armorial Bindings, "Velters, Sir, 4th Baronet (1824 -1868)". Armorial bookplate of Sir Velters Cornewall on the front pastedown. Oxford DNB J. K. Laughton, revised by Andrew Lambert, "Beaver, Philip (1766–1813)". Captain Beaver saw action in the East Indies while under employment with the British Navy. He began his service at age 11. He would go on to attempt to colonize an island off the coast of Sierra Leone before he would die en route back to England a few decades later, after participating in the capture of Mauritius and fighting against the French. Very Good. Item #000012561

Rubbing to the corners and a small chip to the spine's crown, a modern bookplate and an ink note on the free front endpaper.

Price: $300.00

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