THE RETROSPECT...and an Address to Naval Officers. By Alquis, Formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Boston Armstrong and Crocker and Brewster, 1822. 8vo., contemporary printed gray boards. An uncut and untrimmed. REMARKABLE SURVIVAL of a fragile binding, with minimal wear. This second American edition (after the seventh London edition), follows by a year the Philadelphia edition (which was after the fourth London edition). It was a very popular, albeit, pseudonymously written book in which the author, now a Minister of the Established Church, retells his travels to foreign lands as an officer in the Royal Navy, from a Christian viewpoint.A PRIME EXAMPLE of early nineteenth century book making A BRILLIANT COPY IN PRINTED BOARDS