PAYNTER, JONATHAN H. Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam. Portrait frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth; extremities lightly rubbed with some minor loss of cloth; spine gilt somewhat faded. Hartford: The

PAYNTER, JONATHAN H. Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam. Portrait frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth; extremities lightly rubbed with some minor loss of cloth; spine gilt somewhat faded. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1895 E350/500 FIRST EDITION of a naval/travel narrative. Paynter, born to well-to-do parents in 1862 and well educated, accepted a position as steward to the captain of a "man-of- war," the U.S.S. Ossipee. He traveled with the ship to the Near and Far East as well as Europe. Blockson Collection 905, (second edition, 1911); Schomburg Collection rare. 910. 4-P.