Item #162741 THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER: A personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876. Herbert Swire.
THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER: A personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876.
THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER: A personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876.

THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER: A personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876.

Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings from his journals. Foreword by Major Roger Swire. Introduction by G. Herbert Fowler. In two volumes. Pp. 192+168+[2](colophon, blank), 10 hand coloured plates with tissue guards, numerous black & white text illustrations (some full page), upper endpaper map Volume I; tall imp. 8vo; qr. white buckram, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, blue cloth boards, a couple of fore-corners and the spine extremities of Volume II slightly bruised; within matching blue cloth slipcase, the cloth starting to lift at spine; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper endpapers, scattered light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938. Edition limited to 300 numbered sets on Van Gelder paper. Pertelote 134. *The first publication of Swire's account of the Challenger voyage: 'this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young Naval Officer on board, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times' [Pertelote, p. 31]. Spine decorations by Lettice Sandford. Item #162741

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