Disbound
1854 · Boston
by Ware, John F.W.
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1854. First edition thus. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy, lacking the wrappers, with marginal finger soiling and a mail fold.. 12 pp. 8vo. Discusses the horrors and dangers of the sea, written after the 1853 hurricane season which included the strongest Atlantic hurricane until the 1924 Cuba hurricane, and just after two prominent shipwrecks: (1) the clipper packet ship Staffordshire, which the Boston papers had reported on, which struck on Blonde Rock at Seal Islands, Cape Sable after a heavy gale, and where Captain Richardson and 169 others lost their life when the ship, heading from Liverpool to Boston, went down; and (2) The steamship San Francisco, from New York to California, disabled from strong seas, lost about 200 or more overboard, though a number were eventually rescued. John Fothergill Waterhouse Ware was a Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, Boston, and Baltimore. This sermon was reprinted from the Monthly Religious Magazine. "There is sorrow on the sea" is a text from Jeremiah XLIX, 23. (Inventory #: 38715)