Salem Vessels and their Voyages [4 vols.] Salem Vessels and their Voyages: A History of the Pepper Trade with the Island of Sumatra

Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1924. Octavo. 4 volume set. No dust-jacket. Original blue cloth with different mounted pictorial onlays on each volume. Gilt lettering on dark blue leather spine. Deckled edges. Pages uncut. No half-title. Volume 1 contains B/W frontispiece plate showcasing "Ship America," as well as 77 further B/W illustrations throughout volume. Index included in each volume. Volume 2 contains B/W frontispiece plate showcasing "Ship George" as well as 69 further B/W illustrations throughout volume. Volume 3 contains B/W frontispiece plate showcasing portrait of Elias Haskett Derby, as well as 52 further B/W illustrations throughout volume.Volume 4 contains B/W frontispiece plate showcasing Ship America "as seen under full sail," as well as 41 further B/W illustrations throughout volume. Index included in each volume. Volumes internally unmarked. Cloth is undamaged and unblemished. Tight, near perfect copies of this 1924 set. Series I: A History of the Pepper Trade with the Island of Sumatra; Series II: A History of The George, Glide, Taria Topan and St. Paul, in trade with Calcutta, East Coast of Africa, Madagascar, and the Philippine Islands; Series III: A History of the Astrea, Mindoro, Sooloo, Panay, Dragon, Highlander, Shirley, and Formosa, With Some Account of Their Masters, and Other Reminiscences of Salem Shipmasters; Series IV: A History of the European, African, Australian and South Pacific Islands trade as carried on by Salem merchants, particularly the firm of N.L. Rogers & Brothers. [Reprinted from the Essex Institute Historical Collections Volumes LVII and LVIII.] 1924