AMERICA. – Charles WILKES. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1852. 2 vols., 8vo (189 x 119mm.) Half-titles, 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, 2 vignettes to titles, 12 engraved plates, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear of each volume. (Mild toning.) 21st century green half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (endpapers replaced). – And a further six volumes relating to America (including [Thomas Hamilton’s] ‘Men and Manners in America’, 2 vols., 1833, 8vo, and H. Beecher Stowe’s ‘The Minister’s Wooing’, 1859, 8vo, and Patrick F. Tytler’s ‘Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America’, 1833, 8vo, and M. Sear’s ‘The American Politician’, 1842, 8vo, and Sheahan and Upton’s ‘The Great Conflagration. Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future’, 1871, 8vo) (8).