The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Challenger." Voyages Over Many Seas, Scenes in Many Lands

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Narrow split to gutter at front hinge. Small split to gutter at rear hinge. Some chips to 5mm blank outer margin of the folding map. A few spots of foxing.; [2 (blank)], xviii, 388 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + 1 folding world map ("Chart Showing the track of H.M.S. Challenger in 1872-3-4-5 & 6.") + 24 pages advertisements. Title page vignette illustration (portrait of Captain George S. Nares). 35 in-text illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration on spine and front board. Gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. "Not many years ago, in fact within the memory of the present generation, our knowledge of anything below the ocean's surface was extremely indefinite and obscure." - Introduction, page 1. Contents: Introduction; Gibraltar to Madeira and Teneriffe (Canary Islands); Teneriffe (Canary Islands) to St. Thomas (West Indies); St. Thomas (West Indies) to Bermuda and Halifax (Nova Scotia), and back to Bermuda; Bermuda to the Azores, Cape de Verde, St. Paul's Rocks, Fernando Noronha, Bahia, Tristan D'Acunha, and the Cape of Good Hope; Simon's Bay (Cape of Good Hope) to Marion and Crozet Islands, to Kerguelen Land and the Heard Islands, the Antarctic Regions, and to Melbourne (Australia); Melbourne (Victoria) to Sydney (New South Wales) and Wellington (New Zealand); Wellington (New Zealand) to Friendly and Fiji Islands, to the New Hebrides Group, and to Somerset, Cape York (Queensland, Australia); Cape York (Australia) to the Arru and Kii Islands, to Banda, Amboyna, and Ternate (Molucca Islands); Ternate (Molucca Islands) to Samboanga, Iloilo, and Manilla (Philippine Islands), and to Hong Kong (China); Hong Kong (China) to Manilla, Zebu, Camiguin, and Samboanga (Philippine Islands), and to Humboldt Bay (New Guinea); Humboldt Bay (New Guinea) to Nares Harbour (Admiralty Islands), and to Yokohama (Japan); Japan; Japan to the Sandwich Islands; Sandwich Islands to Society Islands; Society Islands to Juan Fernandez and Valparaiso (Chili); Valparaiso, through the Straits of Magellan; Cape Virgin to Falkland Islands and Monte Video; Monte Video to Ascension and the Cape de Verde Islands; Homeward Bound; Appendix. .