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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book set in great condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. Best set of these books I have seen. 1836 edition. Has the rare green cloth covers. See images. Fantastic books

About the book >.>.> Having passed through both the boatswain’s cheeks without further mischief than extracting two of his best upper double teeth and forcing through the hole of the farther cheek the boatswain’s own quid of tobacco. As for Mr. Easthupp’s ball as he was very unsettled and shut his eyes before he fired it had gone the Lord knows where. The purser’s steward lay on the ground and screamed-the boatswain spit his double teeth and two or three mouthfuls of blood out and then threw down his pistols in a rage. “A pretty business by God” sputtered he: “he’s put my pipe out. How the devil am I to pipe to dinner when I’m ordered all my wind ‘scaping through the cheeks?” In the mean time the others had gone to the assistance of the purser’s steward. (MP)