NOTES OF A CRUISE IN H.M.S. "FAWN" IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC IN THE YEAR 1862.
Pp. xii+268, tinted lithographic frontispiece and 8 plates, plus 5 black & white plates (including a plan) and 6 text illustrations, folding chart at end, appendices; later (but not recent) half calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, the spine and top edges lightly faded; uncut; later endpapers; bottom fore-corner of several leaves water stained, numerous mainly small edge chips and splits, some of which have been tape-repaired, with a few more extensive tears (usually with tape or paper repairs) to the last leaves including all of the appendices, scattered light foxing, browning, and soiling; Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1863. First edition. F.10528; Hill 822. *Includes chapters on New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, the Isle of Pines, and Norfolk Island. Some of the plates are lithographs after photographs by Commander R. P. Cator, the Captain of the Fawn. Item #099629
Price: $750.00