The Loss of the Australia.
New York: Robert Carter & Bro, 1849. Second American edition. Hardcover. A Narrative of the Loss of the Brig Australia by fire on her Voyage from Leith to Sydney with an account of the Sufferings, Religious Exercises & Final Rescue of the Crew & Passengers. 12mo, vii, 98 pp. Orig. brown cloth covers, dusty & bumped, o/w good. Covers embossed with ornamental shield, Carter's Cabinet Library, Fourth Series. Internally, damp marks at tops of early pages, publisher's agent label inside front cover. Scarce early American edition of the original Scotch publication of 1845. Ferguson 4093 (1845) ed. only, without a listing for this US imprint. Trove 47759813. Good + overall. Item #13160
Price: $75.00