The Sea (La Mer)

Pp. viii, (2), (11)-405.  Publisher’s original dark green pebble cloth, spine is lettered in gilt and with gilt floral decorations at the base of the spine, front and rear covers are elaborately-stamped in blind, salmon-pink endpapers, 8vo.  According to the London Athenaeum, this work ‘is another of M. Michelet’s dreamy volumes, half science and half fancy with a blending in both of sensuous suggestion.’  The author ‘discourses upon marine terrors and beauties (from the frontis-matter of the work).  Small nineteenth century sailing-ship bookplate of P. Dorr on front endpaper.  This could be Ebenezer Pearson Dorr (1817 – 1881) who was a merchant sailor, insurance executive, and meteorologist.  Dorr was born in Hartford, Vermont.  In 1838, Dorr settled in Buffalo, New York, and became a sailor on the Great Lakes (modified after Wiki).