Sailing Alone Around the World

Lot 89
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Lot 89 | Sailing Alone Around the World
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SLOCUM, Joshua (1844-1909). Sailing Alone Around the World. New York: The Century Co., 1900.

First edition in book form of the account of the first solo circumnavigation.

Octavo. Illustrated, including photographic frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in green and silver, top edge gilt (some minor rubbing, small abrasion to front cover).

[With:] Voyage of the Liberdade. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894. Also illustrated, including from photographs and in original pictorial cloth (rubbing, spine faded). In Slocum's earlier voyage he builds an unusual boat in Brazil to bring his stranded family home to Boston.
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