A Handbook of Average, For the Use of Merchants, Agents, Ship-Owners, Masters and Others. With a Chapter on Arbitration. - James G. Swan's Copy
London: Smith, Elder and Co / Stevens and Sons, 1868. Third Edition. Hardcover. Stout 8vo. Pp. xx, 539. Index. Brown publisher's cloth, blind stamped borders to covers, gilt titles on the spine, pale yellow endpapers. Spine ends chipped, front hinge starting, cup stains and bubbling to the front cover, head edges soiled, a few marginal annotation in pencil. Previous owner signatures and stamps to FFEP, half title and title page. Good+. Item #12824 James Gilchrist Swan (1818-1900) was an Indian agent in Washington Territory and lived among the Makah for three years. His The Northwest Coast, or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory published in 1857, remains a cornerstone title of Pacific Northwest history. Also signed by Captain Jas. Barr.
As noted in former owner James G. Swan's 1885 manuscript on the title page, the author was Hawaiian consul general to Great Britain from 1856 until his death in 1897. Founder of a marine insurance firm and author of A Manual of Marine Insurance, he was also father of the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Price: $350.00