swire herbert (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition Limited Edition. Quarto (32 x 20.5 cm). Original publisher's quarter white buckram and blue cloth boards. Spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Vol. I: 192 pp., map on front endpapers; Vol. II: 168, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with 10 hand-coloured plates with tissue guards two coloured frontispieces and eight further plates and numerous black-and-white text illustrations including full-page subjects. Printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper. Housed in matching blue cloth slipcase. Limited to 300 numbered sets. Number 238. First edition. Pertelote 134. The voyage of HMS Challenger between 1872 and 1876 was one of the defining scientific expeditions of the nineteenth century. A four-year circumnavigation of the globe undertaken at the prompting of the Royal Society, under the command of Captain George Nares, with the explicit purpose of investigating the deep oceans. What the Challenger's scientists found rewrote the map of the known world: the ocean floor was not the featureless abyss it had been assumed to be, but a vibrant landscape, teeming with life at depths previously thought impossible. The expedition's published scientific reports ran to fifty volumes and laid the foundations of oceanography as an independent discipline. Yet for sixty years, the human story of the voyage the day-to-day experience of living aboard a Royal Navy vessel for four years, navigating the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the tropics to the Antarctic, calling at ports from Bermuda to Japan existed only in the personal papers of those who had made it. Herbert Swire was the Challenger's Navigating Sub-Lieutenant, and his journals constituted the most detailed private account of the voyage in existence. The Golden Cockerel Press, under Christopher and Anthony Sandford and Owen Rutter, brought those journals to print for the first time in 1938. This production is characteristic of the Golden Cockerel Press's publishing: Perpetua type set onto luxurious Van Gelder paper, Swire's illustrations reproduced finely with full-coloured plates, a beautiful and sturdy binding that perfectly fits the aesthetic of the work. As Pertelote notes, this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young naval officer, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times. It has never been reprinted. Very Good/Near fine in slipcase. Slipcase shows some shelf wear, rubbing along edges and corners with some very mild internal wear. Volumes near fine: bindings square, tight, and free from markings. Contents show some mild foxing mostly to foredges, with very faint and scattered foxing internally. A beautiful set.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Herbert Swire (illustrator). A limited edition of Herbert Swire's insightful first hand account of the Challenger expedition, colourfully illustrated by the author. A limited edition of three hundred copies by the Golden Cockerel Press, this copy is numbered one hundred and sixty.In the original cloth slipcase, in a very good condition.Herbert Swire's first hand account of the Challenger expedition, on which he was Navigating Sub-Lieutenant. In this work, extracted from his journals, Swire presents a person narrative of the Challenger's circumnavigation of the globe in 1872 to 1876, a monumental voyage that made many discoveries that lay the foundation of oceanography.Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, in addition to three colour plates to Volume I, four colour plates to Volume II, and monochrome in-text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.With a foreword by Major Roger Swire, and an introduction by G. Herbert Fowler.The illustrations are by the author. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original cloth slipcase. Externally, smart. Spines are a little age-toned. A few light marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots, mostly to the first and last few pages. Slipcase is a little rubbed and worn with a few light marks, in a very good condition. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited. Hardbacks, two volume set. Original two-tone cloth, complete with slipcase. 32 x 20cm. 192pp; 168pp, [2]. A coloured frontis in each volume and a further eight tissue guarded coloured plates, plus line illustrations to the text. Maps on end-papers on volume 1. Number 227 of a limited edition of 300. Some rubbing to slipcase. A couple of spots to end-papers but generally a very clean set. Slightest wear only.

A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, by Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. With a foreword by Major Roger Swire and introduction by G. Robert Fowler. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in Swire's journals. The plates coloured by hand. 2 vols., small folio, original blue and white buckram, gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, blue buckram slipcase. London, Golden Cockerel Press. No. 57 of 300 copies. Some foxing to the first and last few pages, spines a little browned with a small loss of the gilt on the second vol, slipcase slightly marked and worn at the extremities.