Narrative of the Voyage of HMS 'Rattlesnake', commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley . during the years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc. to which is added the Account of Mr E.B. Kennedy's...
By MacGILLIVRAY, John
London, T. & W. Boone, 1852 (first issue). Octavo, two volumes, xii, 402, 8 (publisher's advertisements), and vi, 396 (last blank), 12 (publisher's advertisements) pages with illustrations plus 13 lithographed plates (6 tinted), a large folding engraved map and the two advertising slips as called for. (Most of the plates are after drawings by Thomas Henry Huxley). Reinserted in the original dark blue straight-ribbed cloth, with minor restoration to the ends of the spines and early matching replacement endpapers; spines lettered in gilt, sides extensively decorated in blind; all edges uncut; cloth a little marked, scuffed and bumped, with the extremities lightly worn; spines lightly sunned; trifling signs of use and age; a very good set. The 'Rattlesnake' expedition was an important hydrographical survey, and accordingly has a place in a collection of coastal voyages. Significantly, however, most of the second volume is given over to accounts of Edward Kennedy's tragic expedition (by Carron, Jackey-Jackey and others), as well as lengthy appendices on comparative vocabularies of Cape York and New Guinea, and natural history. Ferguson 11972; Wantrup 145. [2 items].
Published by: T. & W. Boone, London, 1852
Vendor: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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By MacGILLIVRAY, John
London, T. & W. Boone, 1852 (first issue). Octavo, two volumes, xii, 402, 8 (publisher's advertisements), and vi, 396 (last blank), 12 (publisher's advertisements) pages with illustrations plus 13 lithographed plates (6 tinted), a large folding engraved map and the two advertising slips as called for. (Most of the plates are after drawings by Thomas Henry Huxley). Reinserted in the original dark blue straight-ribbed cloth, with minor restoration to the ends of the spines and early matching replacement endpapers; spines lettered in gilt, sides extensively decorated in blind; all edges uncut; cloth a little marked, scuffed and bumped, with the extremities lightly worn; spines lightly sunned; trifling signs of use and age; a very good set. The 'Rattlesnake' expedition was an important hydrographical survey, and accordingly has a place in a collection of coastal voyages. Significantly, however, most of the second volume is given over to accounts of Edward Kennedy's tragic expedition (by Carron, Jackey-Jackey and others), as well as lengthy appendices on comparative vocabularies of Cape York and New Guinea, and natural history. Ferguson 11972; Wantrup 145. [2 items].
Published by: T. & W. Boone, London, 1852
Vendor: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
