Notes of a cruise in the H.M.S. Fawn in the western Pacific in the year 1862

by T. H Hood

$500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, 3 , 268; folding map and 20 illustrations, including 9 tinted lithographs; spine ends a bit chipped, slight rubbing, but generally a good copy in original brown cloth gilt. Sidney, Australia and return, via Aukland, Samoa, Feegee, New Caledonia, and Norfolk, with a whole chapter at the end and one stunning lithograph plate on the Pitcairn Islanders. Ferguson 10528. Item #25579

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