The Blockade Runners. Counterculture White wrappers printed in b/w

White wrappers printed in b/w photographic image and orange lettering

72 x 36 inches (image size 59 x 30 inches)

when Bancroft was serving as Secretary of the Navy and Espy was the meteorologist reporting to that department

and "Excerpts from Letters"

The Blockade Runners. Counterculture White wrappers printed in b/wLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. 7 1 2" x 5 1 4". [2, ads], [4], 120, [2], [16, ads], [2, ads], [4, bound in advert for "The Select Library of Fiction"] pp + frontispiece. Complete with 14 b&w plates in text. Original green illustrated wraps, bound into new burgundy cloth binding lettered in gilt, with gilt initials "B. G." to front board, new endpapers. Cloth binding clean and sharp; ownership blind stamp and ink date to front