Gatherings from Spain.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

With Admiral John Lort Stokes’ signature to upper flyleaf. 1846 was the year that Stoke’s published his two-volume account of his time on the Beagle . In July the same year, he was made commander of HMS Acheron which carried out a four-year surveying voyage of New Zealand. He almost certainly had this book with him on the voyage.

• Year: 1846

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