Lot #3 [ALASKA] HEALY, M[ICHAEL] A. Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884.

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[ALASKA]
HEALY, M[ICHAEL] A.
Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. 11 1/2 x 9 inches; 128 pp.; frontispiece and plates after photographs. Generally a bit rubbed with a few pale stains and spots to covers, a bit overopened, evenly toned throughout, non-authorial signature to front free endpaper.
Healy was born into slavery, the son of an Irish immigrant planter and his mixed-race slave (whom he took as his common-law wife in 1829). The fifth of ten children, Healy was the first man of African-American descent to command a ship of the United States government.

ESTIMATE $60-80

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