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1850 Colton Voyages California San Francisco Brazil Slave Trade Peru Deck & Port. Walter Colton’s’ Deck and Port’ was an important historical account of the post-war voyages of the USS Congress. This voyage from The Gulf of Mexico, around South America ended in California. Colton describes botanical and scientific discoveries near the equator, including animals and weather phenomena. However, the most interesting topics in this book include his perspective on the treatment of slaves and slave-trading in Brazil. This book also has one of the earliest descriptions of surfing. Nothing here has amused me more than the surf-sports of the young chiefs. Each takes a smooth board, of some eight feet in length, leads it over the coral shallows far out into the sea, and when a tremendous roller is coming in, jumps upon it, and the roller carries him upon its combing top, with the speed of an arrow to the shore. A young American. Ventured out a short distance, and as the roller came, jumped upon his plank, was capsized, and hove, half strangled onto the beach! Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California: with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco. Collation: Complete with all pages. Sabin 14799; Howes C 624; Cowan, 237; Hill 340. Binding: Leather; tight and secure. 7in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm). This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “schilb_antique_books” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year Printed: 1850
• Topic: Travel
• Binding: Leather
• Region: North America
• Author: COLTON, Walter
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English
• Publisher: A.S. Barnes & Co
• Place of Publication: New York
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated

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Carte Particuliere de la Cote du Nord-Ouest de l’Amerique reconnue par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l’ Astrolabe en 1786 3e. Jean Francois Galaup de La Perpuse. Atlas du voyage de La Perouse. (540 x 810 mm) (490 x 680 mm). A large-format map of the coasts of Northern California and Oregon from the epic voyage of the Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, becoming the first non-Spaniards to visit Spanish Colonial California. This fine map embraces the West Coast from Monterey, California to up a point in Oregon just south of the mouth of the Columbia River. The account of the voyage is notable for its inclusion of harbor charts of San Francisco, Monterey and San Diego Bays, although this chart does not show La Perouse’s ships entering San Francisco Bay. Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was a French naval officer and scientist. In response to Cooks’s epic Pacific Voyages (1768-80), the French government appointed La Perouse to lead an expedition to explore the regions that were left uncharted by Cook. Please contact me if you haveany questions. This is a guaranteed ORIGINALPRINT from the period of creation, NOT a reproduction. The item “Port of San Francisco and Port de Monterey, La Pérouse 1797″ is in sale since Monday, March 5, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\North America Maps”. The seller is “terranovamaps” and is located in Buenos Aires. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Condition: Used
• Cartographer/Publisher: La Perouse’s
• Mexican State: Baja California
• Printing Technique: Copper Plate
• Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
• Canadian Province: california
• Year: 1797
• US State: California
• Date Range: 1700-1799
• City: St diego
• Country/Region: United States of America

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