commodore byron (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1839. No Edition Stated. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Prize plate to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.

Full Calf. William Bryne and George Stubbs (after) (illustrator). 3rd edition. 3rd ed. (first octavo edition), two volumes (of four). Vol.III: pp.(viii), 416, five fold engraved plates, closed tear along upper fold and tape remains to rear of 'Endeavour' plate, some darkening to folds, light off-setting opp. plates, lacking r.f.e.p. Vol.IV: pp.(vi), 429, (ii, publisher's adverts), two engraved folding plates, lacking r.f.e.p. and creased f.f.e.p., water-staining to edges of prelims, t.p. and contents, not affecting text. Prev owner's ink signature and date to f.f.e.p. of both volumes, "George Mundy, Sept. 19th, 1790" (1792 in other volume) with his contemporary book-plates (G.M.) to front paste-down in each volume. Both volumes full calf, cnrs and edges rubbed, spine worn, green and red titled leather labels to each volume. Engraved folding plates in volume four, "A View of Endeavour River on the Coast of New Holland" and "The Kanguroo, an animal found on the Coast of New Holland". Very good and generally clean condition The two volumes complete with all plates. First English octavo edition, volumes 3 and 4 only, with the two folding plates, "A View of Endeavour River"on the Coast of New Holland" and "The Kanguroo". Beddie 665.

Tomes 3 et 4, complets en eux-même, de la première série de la première année de ce recueil de voyages destiné à la jeunesse, traduit de la compilation donnée par l'allemand Joachim Heinrich Campe par Jean-Baptiste Joseph Breton de la Martinière.Ces tomes contiennent : - Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par le Commodore Byron, dans les années 1764, 1765 et 1766.(pp. 1-159 du tome 3).- Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Phlippe Carteret, Capitaine de Vaisseau Anglais, commencé en 1766, et achevé en 1769. (pp. 160-235 du tome 3 et 1-38 du tome 4).- Relation d'un voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Samuel Wallis, Capitaine de Vaisseau Anglais, commencé en 1766, et achevé en 1768. (pp. 39-206 du tome 4).2 vignettes en frontispices.