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COLTON, Walter CHEEVER, Henry T. Sea and the Sailor. US ed.
D.W. Evans, 1860,
COLTON, Rev. Walter. The Sea and the Sailor, Notes on France and Italy, and Other Literary Remains of Rev. Walter Colton. With a Memoir by Rev. Henry T. Cheever. N.Y.: D.W. Evans & Co., 1860. Pp (8),[7]-437,(1),(6,ads),(2), frontis.+ 1 plate. 8vo, brown pressed cloth. See especially "The Sea and the Sailor" (pp.19-92) and chapters 2 and 3 of the "Memoir" (pp.365-391) concerning Rev. Colton's service as a Navy Chaplain. Subjects covered include the traits of the sailor, obedience to orders, chivalric devotion to women, roughness and honesty in courtship, exploits of the crew of the North Carolina, superstition of the sailor, belief in ghosts and the spirit-world, battle between the American Roundabouts and the French Dress-coats, abolition of the whisky ration argued, Navy Chaplains, the relation of the church to the sailor, etc. Cracked, worn, heavily foxed, else vg. 70.00
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70.00 CDN
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