ROVINGS IN THE PACIFIC, FROM 1837 TO 1849;
With a Glance at California. By a merchant long resident at Tahiti. With four illustrations printed in colours. Two volumes in one. Pp. xii+352(last colophon)+[iii]-xii(lacking half-title)+372(last colophon), 4 coloured lithographic plates (both frontispieces with tissue guard); original navy cloth boards, decorated in blind, rubbed and lightly worn, corners bruised, rebacked, with later gilt lettered navy morocco spine; uncut; later endpapers; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a few leaves carelessly opened, pp. 208-9 and 224-5 taped at hinge, scattered light foxing and soiling; Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, London, 1851. First edition. Hill 1041; Abbey, Travel, 600; Hocken p. 161. *The author, Edward Lucatt (1815-1853) visited the Bay of Islands, Auckland, the Hawaiian Islands, Pitcairn Island, the Philippines and San Francisco. The final chapter includes his impressions of San Francisco and Sacramento during the height of the gold rush. Also includes an account of the French annexation of Tahiti. Item #099642
Price: $1,500.00