The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating to the Practical Duties of Master and Mariner
Boston: Thomas Groom & Co., 1857. Ninth Edition, revised and corrected. Black and white engraved plates. Original cloth. Duodecimo. [2 ads], [i-iv], v-viii, [ix-xiii], 14-225, [2 ads] pages. The author of 'Two Years Before the Mast' drew upon his own hard-won experience at sea as well as his subsequent legal..... More


