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London; Longmans, Green, & Co., Paternoster Row; 1989.. First Edition; Roy 4to; pp. [ii], 64, 64, 64; texts illustrated with numerous b/w. illustrations, bound in original orange decorated cloth, cloth worn and damaged on top edge, title page missing, fair copy only.

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New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1880. Thick 8vo. xx, [2], 448 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp., over 100 woodcut engravings & plates based on photographs, 2 large folding colour maps, bound front & rear of textblock. Cobalt-blue illustrated publisher’s cloth over beveled boards, gilt & black lettering, decoration illustration front cover wraparound to spine, brown clay-sized endpapers (minor edgewear, fraying head & foot of spine, minor bumping & wear to corners), still a VG- copy, w/ small bookseller’s label of Joseph McDonogh, Albany, NY on front pastedown. First American edition of this well-written account of Mrs. Brassey’s yachting voyages from 1874-1878 on their 3-masted steam-powered schooner Sunbeam through the Mediterranean, Adriatic, with stops in Greece, Sicily, Cyprus, and extensive travels and stops through Constantinople, and the Ottoman Empire. Most of the woodcut engravings are based on photographs by Brassey (1839-1887) was an accomplished amateur photographer, and of which over 5600… Read More

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1880 1st edition. Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. Halfbound calf leather fine binding. With blue textured cloth to boards, decorative raised and gilt banding to spine, with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Red speckled page edging. Light brown/orange endpapers. In very good condition. Some fading to spine and top quarters of cloth on boards. Leather rubbed on corners and top end of spine. A couple of minor spots & minor handling marks to endpapers, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. ix + 448pp. Illustrated with many B&W woodcut illustrations, including 9 full-page B&W plates. Lacks the two colour maps at either end of volume.

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1881. 488 pp. incl. index. Early full tree calf, gilt spine and cover dentelles, aeg, marbled endpapers; edge wear, front cover separated (but present), rear hinge/joint slightly cracked, else very good. Pages sl toned, front fly leaf removed. Half-title upper outer corner cellophane tape reinforced. Text illus. 2 folding maps (Mediterranean Sea area and Cyprus): sea areas in blue, travel route lines in color. Later edition. First published in 1880. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1881. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Hon. A. Y. Bingham. A lovely volume depicting the travels of Lady Brassey to Cyprus and Constantinople, with illustrations and maps. This volume describes the voyage Lay Brassey took to the East and Constantinople and the Ionian Islands.  Lady Brassey, or Anne Brassey, was an English travel writer and her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam describes a voyage around the world. Illustrated by drawings chiefly by the Hon. A. V. Bingham. With nine full-page illustrations, two folding maps and extensively illustrated throughout the text with wood cuts. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the joints and bumping to the spine. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright pages. The first and last few pages, including the maps, have some scattered spots but the rest of the pages are bright… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Include 2 maps on endpapers. Very good condition. Partially cracked gutter at front endpaper but no detachment. Pages clean and bright, inscription dated 1883 on half-title page, very light spotting on blank pages after endpapers, binding firm, light shelf wear to edges of boards.. Hard. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Bingham, A. Y.. 8vo.

London, , 1888. . 19,5x13 cm. . Longmans, Green, and Co., Frontis, XXI páginas, 1 hoja, 488 páginas. Ilustrado con un gran numero de grabados dentro de texto, y dos mapas litográficos a color desplegables: "Map showing Trakcs of the Yacht "Sunbeam" 1874-1878", "Cyprus". Ligeros puntos de óxido. Encuadernación original en tela verde estampada y gofrada con dorados, lomo ilustrado y estampado. Hojas de guarda y cortes dorados. Buen estado de conservación. Edición original. Anna Brassey, baronesa Brassey (de soltera Allnutt; 7 de octubre de 1839 - 14 de septiembre de 1887) fue una viajera y escritora inglesa. Su exitoso libro A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describe un viaje alrededor del mundo.

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1880 1st edition. Bound in attractive Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt, designed by Gustave Doré. Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. In good condition. Some rubbing to corners & edges. A few chips ends of spine, with very small split split top front hinge. Inside some foxing on early and late pages. Small faint mark on verso of frontis. Folding map a little creased on one fold, & two small nicks on fore edge. On half a lovely INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR “Edwin A. Cade With best wishes from the Author” Inside a few pages a little proud, else generally clean & tight. 488pp. Illustrated with 2 folding colour maps, and many B&W woodcut illustrations, including 9 full-page plates. This narrative deals with two voyages, one in the western Mediterranean in 1874 and another in 1878 to Cyprus and Constantinople.