captain sir edward belcher (5 Ergebnisse)

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 2 volumes, xxxviii, 387 pages, vi, 474 pages; 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (lacking one), 18 engraved plates, 20 vignettes. Contemporary half leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine title labels on green leather at top of spine, black lables with name of author and volume at bottom of spine (partially chipped off), leather split on one side of vol. 2 but binding still very firm, a few plates mildly foxed. Overall a solid and nice set of this account. Much on California, Alaska, Hawaiian islands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Dutch East Indies, etc.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Henry Colburn,1843. Half-Leather. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Marbled boards and endpapers, Corners rubbed through, scuffing along edges. Vol I: Covers detached, spine is absent. Approx 2-inch area of paper lifted from bottom corner of back cover. Vol II: small tear at top of spine. 2-3 inch split at top of spine. Piece missing fron bottom of spine. One plate is detached and laid in. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are cracked. Good reading/research copy. Excellent candidate for re-binding.

Cloth. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this detailed description of Edward Belcher's voyage around the Pacific on HMS Sulphur, complete, and in the original blue cloth binding. The first edition of the work, with the sixteen page advertisement catalogue to the rear of volume one dated February 1843. With three folding maps to the front pocket of volume one. With a frontispiece and seven engraved plates to volume one. Volume two with a frontispiece and ten engraved plates. All tissue guards present. Collated complete. Written by Edward Belcher, a British naval office and explorer. Belcher performed many coastal surveys for the British Admiralty, including a surveying ship along the north and west coasts of Africa, North and South America, the South Pacific and China. in 1852, Belcher was tasked with searching for Sir John Franklin, following his disappearance whilst attempting to find the Northwest Passage. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World accounts Belcher's expedition surveying the Pacific onboard the HMS Sulphur. The voyage followed the California coast, moving North towards Alaska. He also visited a number of the Pacific Islands including Hawaii and Tonga. The work contains many plates displaying the native people of the various countries, such as Chinese soldiers and native people of New Guinea and Celebes. In need of restoration, but nonetheless a complete edition of this important work, in the original publisher's blue cloth. In the publisher's blue cloth binding. Externally worn with rear board to volume one detached but present. Rubbing to the boards. Hinges strained to volume one. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally clean with marginal age toning. Loss to final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary ink inscription and stamp to title page of volume one and stamp to volume two. The occasional minor closed tear to folding maps. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo (8 ¾" x 5 9/16", 222mm x 142mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in half brown calf over red marbled boards by J. Carss & Co., Glasgow (tickets in the upper fore-corner of the front paste-down of each volume). Triple blind fillets at the edges of the calf. On the spine, five raised bands with gilt rolls. Double blind fillets top-and-bottom in the panels. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel, number gilt to brown morocco in the fourth panel. Edges of the text-block speckled red. Some rubbing to the extremities and boards. A couple of nicks to the spines. A few tears to the folds of the maps in vol. I. Otherwise a lovely sturdy and clean set. On the front paste-down of each volume, the circular armorial bookplate of Campbell of Stonefield. The Samarang, which served for 61 years (1822-1883) - first for the East India Company - is perhaps best known for its voyages surveying from the Sea of Japan to the South China Sea. Belcher, its captain and later made an Admiral, is perhaps better known for his command of a fleet of five ships on an expedition to save the arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (see Skelton, Explorers' Maps 315); the timbers one of those ships, the Resolute, were used to build the Resolute Desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to the Rutherford B. Hayes, which is used by most presidents as the Oval Office desk. Belcher's anthropological explorations are marked by a greater-than-usual degree of scientific inquiry; this is underscored by the quite useful vocabulary at the end of vol. II, which encompasses English, Spanish, Malay, Bisayan, Sooloo (Tausug), Iloco, Batan, Cagayan, Tagala (Tagalog), Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Adams's natural-historical account, a bit over half of volume II, was the underpinning for his 1850 monograph on the zoology of the voyage; it is particularly esteemed for its work on mollusks. The plates are various in subject - including some lovely proper portraits (rather than caricatures) of those Belcher met in his travels - and demonstrate the success of good tinted rather than colored lithographs. The bookplate is likely that of John Campbell of Stonefield (17901857), grandson of the more famous Lord Stonefield. John built Stonefield Castle in Argyll & Bute in Western Scotland; his uncle, Colonel John, was distinguished for his service at Mangalore on the west coast of India - perhaps this is the origin of the family interest in the exploration of southeast Asia. Abbey, Travel 528; Hill, Pacific Voyages 105.

8vo, 23,5cm, First edition. vi,(2),474p., with 11 engraved plates, (inc. frontis) 9 engraved vignette illustrations, in the Original ribbed blue cloth, gilt spine titles, a fine copy (gar).