captain george bayly (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press, 1998. Octavo, xviii, 365 pages with 17 illustrations and maps plus 16 pages of plates and a genealogical tree on the front free endpaper. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of glue from mount. It would give her 'very much pleasure' to accept the invitation 'to join you & other dear workers in the Temperance Work you are planning for April, but I am sorry to say at present I am quite liad aside from all work'. She describes how she has been ill since the previous October. She is now regaining strength, and is going into the country and will probably 'remain away for 2 or 3 months[.] The doctors speak hopefully of entire recovery so that I may hope some day to be at work again, but I am afraid the next 6 months will have to be spent in much idleness'. She sitll has the 'sweet privildege [sic] of remember & praying for those who are carrying on the great mission', and she will 'bear your meetings in mind'. Signed 'Mary Bayly'.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart copy of this semi-autobiographical work on a sea expedition in the nineteenth century led by Captain George Bayly. In the original pictorial cloth binding. A fascinating recount of nineteenth-century sea voyages that led to the discovery of relics of the sea expedition commanded by French naval commander Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse. His expedition had been wrecked on the coasts of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands.Written by Captain George Bayly.In the original pictorial cloth binding with gilt stamping to the front board and spine.This copy also came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was allegedly the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to the front board and spine. Externally, very smart, with a few small marks to the boards and a small amount of bumping to the head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, hinges strained but firm. Binding is slightly tender in a few places, but is generally firm. Pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good. book.