Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents in the United States, to which are appended Accounts of Recent Shipwrecks, Fires at Sea, Thrilling Incidents, etc
Worcester: Warren Lazell, 1846.
Hardcover. Good. Revised and improved edition (first published 1840). This volume has no author listed; the earlier edition was attributed to S.A. Howland. 12mo; x, [13]-408 pp, with 9 full-page illustrations, others in the text. Publisher's cloth boards, rebacked with part of original spine laid down, endpapers replaced. Edgeworn, foxing throughout, one plate with an old tape repair, title page and a few others trimmed about 1/4 inch smaller than the rest of the text. Good. "The work is decidedly American," says the Preface, "and comprises authentic accounts of nearly all the various disasters on steamboats and railroads that have occurred, during many years, throughout the United States. In reviewing its contents, it will be found, with but very few exceptions, that none of it has ever before been published in an embodied form, and, consequently, can be found in no other volume." Howes H-742; Sabin 90853; Huntress 155.
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