As Related in His Private Journals, 1837-1856. Maritime history, Like New condition but for prev. owner's bookplate. Portrait frontispiece, stated first edition published by E.P. Dutton, 1982. Dust jacket is pristine and mapped endpapers are line drawn and titled Pirate Track Chart October 1849. Watercolor illustrations by the Dr., with an introduction and editing by Michael Levien.  Gate-fold color painting of ships titled Firing at Bomersund. Full page color map,  plenty of illustrations, appendices and selected biographies among 275 clean pages. The personal narrative of Dr. Edward Cree, surgeon in the Royal Navy from 1837-1869. The original manuscripts recorded all of Dr. Cree's sea voyages. Illustrated hardcover with mylar cover and bookplate on mapped endpapers.