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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 53pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 67 characteristic Harper's engravings, one internal page-only was damaged, and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from damaged issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XVI, Nos. 94 - 95, March and April, 1858, and Volume XVII, No. 97, June, 1858. The author, F. N. Otis, M. D., writing under the pseudonym Oran, was a surgeon in the U. S. Mail Steamship Company, and would a few years later write, ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE PANAMA RAILROAD, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1861. The present item predates the book and includes the author's voyage through the Caribbean aboard the steamship U. S. M. Illinois. Places include Jamaica, Panama, Cuba, Watling's Island, Port Royal, Kingston, Bermuda Mountain, Aspinwall, or Colon, and Porto Bello. Illustrations include a portrait of the captain, various scenes on board, gulf weed, a school of porpoises, the southern end of Watling's Island, a view of Cape Maysi on the eastern end of Cuba, a water spout, coal carriers, ships coaling at Jamaica, a portrait of Colonel Harrison, various native fruits, the parade ground, flying fish, the wharf at Aspinwall, the cross at Porto Bello, a view of the Agency, various flora and fauna including a vampire bat, a train station, the Mingillo, San Blas Indians, a scene of the landing of the pirates and the capture of Porto Bello, the beach, Columbus' Spring, the schoolmaster with students, Fort Triana, and ruins of a church. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 3rd edition. 964 pages. 9.50x6.50x2.15 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: VG. Philadelphia 1843 Le & Blanchard. octavo wraps. Extracted from an issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, new series, vol VI. and rebound in later plain wraps. original printing. pp. 252-256. Full of "facts" and statistics on diseases, early deaths, etc of mulattoes. VG.

Hardcover in original embossed green-cloth binding, with fold-out double-hemispheric world map. This copy presented to "Captain Thomas Jordan from Rowell S. Ripley". Josiah Clark Nott, M.D. (1804-1873), South Carolina-born, preeminent surgeon and anthropologist. He is best known for his etiological studies of yellow fever and malaria and his theory that they have germ origins. During the Civil War, he served as a Confederate surgeon, staff officer, and director of the Confederate General Army Hospital in Mobile. Thomas Jordan (1819-1895) Virginia-born, a Confederate general and major operative in the network of Confederate spies during the Civil War. Roswell Sabine Ripley (1823-1887) Ohio-born, was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, and later brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. After the war moved to London, England and was an engineer/entrepreneur, short time later, his wife and daughter left him to return to Charleston. See book "Resolute Rebel: General Rowell S. Ripley, Charleston's Gallant Defender" by Chet Bennett about his life.