first edition
1956 · Cambridge, MD
by Tompkins, J. B., editor
Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1956. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1],64; frontispiece portrait, 6 plates, plus a large folding track chart at the back, and a folding plate of the line drawings of the Pacific; near fine copy in the dust jacket. A single-handed passage from San Francisco to (almost) Australia. It was originally published by the author in Sydney in 1883.
(Inventory #: 64277)