Pacific.- Patterson (Samuel) Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of Samuel Patterson, first edition, contemporary ink ownership inscription of Joshua Fiske of Sturbridge to front free endpaper, a couple very small holes affecting a letter of text (p.13, 17 and 35), lightly browned throughout (as usual) with some foxing, minor damp-stain to head of first few leaves, original calf, red morocco label to spine, tiny chip to spine head, corners worn, rubbed, [Sabin 59145; Hill 1315; Howes P-122], small 8vo, From the Press in Palmer [Mass.], May 1, 1817.

⁂ A Pacific narrative including material on California and America's Northwest coast, Hawaii and Fiji, the latter where Patterson was marooned for six months following a shipwreck. Howes refers to this as the second issue, noting a Rhode Island issue published the same year as the first. The Rhode Island issue is unrecorded in the other references cited.