A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Journals of Captain George Bayly 1824 - 1844
Melbourne, Australia: The Miegunyah Press, University of Melbourne, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xxvii, 364. Frontis. portrait photograph. Illustrated with text maps and diagrams, 19 plates many in color. Glossary, bibliography, 5 appendices, index. Bound in black buckram, gilt lettering stamped on the spine. Light blue endpapers, front printed with Bayly family tree. Ribbon bookmark. Fine / Fine. Item #4971
Number 19 in the second Miegunyah series. Bayly made eleven voyages around the world in twenty years and colorfully recorded in this journal dramatic encounters with cannibals, convicts and pirates. One of 1,000 copies printed, this being an especially fresh copy. Dust jacket preserved in a clear removable archival sleeve.
Price: $45.00