In the Trades, the Tropics, & The Roaring Forties - INSCRIBED by Lord Brassey
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1885. R. T. Pritchett. Limited Edition. Three quarter vellum. 4to. Pp. xiv, 532. Illustrated with 292 mounted engravings by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after Robert Taylor Pritchett, and three-color maps including a fold-out chart. Index. Edition limited to 250, this copy hand numbered 246. Bound in three-quarter vellum with tooled gilt rules over grey cloth boards, gilt spine titles, marbled endpapers, TEG, red bookmark ribbon bound in. Sunning to spine; rubbed edges; minor soiling to covers, bookmark ribbon detached. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and ship name in ink on the title page. Inscription by the author's husband, Lord Brassey, tipped-in to half-title: "W. H. White from Brassey with sincere congratulations" on his engraved note paper ("24 Park Lane W."). Very Good-. Item #11353
Account of the 1883 14,000-mile cruise of the Sunbeam, the Brasseys' steam-assisted luxury yacht visiting Madeira, Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Azores.
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