Title: Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 Author: Brenchley, Julius L. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Date: 1873 Description: xxviii, 487 pp. Folding chromolithographed frontispiece; 50 plates including 21 hand-colored lithographs of birds, 10 plates of fishes, 4 plates of reptiles, 7 hand-colored lithographs of shells, and 8 hand-colored lithographs of insects; 44 woodcuts (8 full-page); tinted folding map; chromolithograph plate of a village hall from the Solomon Islands; and a vignette of a canoe on title. (Large 8vo) 25.5x18 cm. (10x7") original green cloth, gilt canoe on front cover. First Edition. "This voyage was especially significant for the natural history data collected...The ship sailed from Sydney...to display the British flag in the different archipelagoes of the western Pacific. Visits were made to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and Niue or Savage Island; Samoa, Tona, and Fiji; the New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, and Solomon Islands; New Caledonia, and the Loyalty Islands." - Hill 191. Nissen, ZBI, 572. Lot Amendments Condition: Tear at head of spine, light wear and soiling, extremities worn, hinges reinforced; some light foxing, faint staining to a few plates; short tear to map at a fold, small ink stamp on front endpaper and title page; very good. Item number: 210124
Title: Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865 Author: Brenchley, Julius L. Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. Date: 1873 Description: xxviii, 487 pp. Folding chromolithographed frontispiece; 50 plates including 21 hand-colored lithographs of birds, 10 plates of fishes, 4 plates of reptiles, 7 hand-colored lithographs of shells, and 8 hand-colored lithographs of insects; 44 woodcuts (8 full-page); tinted folding map; chromolithograph plate of a village hall from the Solomon Islands; and a vignette of a canoe on title. (Large 8vo) 25.5x18 cm. (10x7") original green cloth, gilt canoe on front cover. First Edition. "This voyage was especially significant for the natural history data collected...The ship sailed from Sydney...to display the British flag in the different archipelagoes of the western Pacific. Visits were made to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and Niue or Savage Island; Samoa, Tona, and Fiji; the New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, and Solomon Islands; New Caledonia, and the Loyalty Islands." - Hill 191. Nissen, ZBI, 572. Lot Amendments Condition: Tear at head of spine, light wear and soiling, extremities worn, hinges reinforced; some light foxing, faint staining to a few plates; short tear to map at a fold, small ink stamp on front endpaper and title page; very good. Item number: 210124
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