Personal Reminiscences by Robert B. Forbes, Third Edition, Revised, To Which is Added Rambling Recollections Connected with China, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1892, 412pp, cloth, 5.5 x 8", 12mo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped.  Some wear to spine, but still legible.  Speckled fore edges.  Stamp for Thorndike Rooms, Russell House on flyleaf.  Gift inscription to the Samuel Russell House in Middletown, Connecticut, on endpaper.  Frontispiece of the author opposite title page.  Minor toning throughout textblock.  Includes 3 other illustrations and a list of vessels built under the author's supervision.  Please see photos.

Robert Bennet Forbes (September 18, 1804 - November 23, 1889) was an American sea captain, China merchant, and ship owner.  He was active in ship construction, maritime safety, the opium trade, and charitable activities, including food aid to Ireland, which became known as American's first major disaster relief effort.