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In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties. by BRASSEY, Lady Annie - 1885

by BRASSEY, Lady Annie

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In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties. by BRASSEY, Lady Annie - 1885

In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties.

by BRASSEY, Lady Annie

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1885. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1885. 8vo. Highly decorative publisher's pictorial cloth binding, gilt title and vignette of S.S. Sunbeam central to upper board, rest of the boards depict a West Indian island, gilt title to spine; pp. xv, 532; numerous woodcut illustrations to text and 8 decorative colour-printed maps with pictorial framework, including 2 large and folding, pictorial title; minor wear to extremities, apart from offsetting from endpapers and a few pages roughly opened, a superb copy of this sumptuous Victorian book production. First edition, inscribed by the author on half-title. This is the penultimate of Lady Brassey's five accounts of the voyages made by her family in the Sunbeam, her husband's 531 ton steam yacht. On this particular journey, subtitled "14,000 Miles in the Sunbeam in 1883", the Brasseys visited Madeira, Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Azores. One of the best illustrated yachting accounts ever published.
  • Bookseller Henry Sotheran Ltd. GB (GB)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Date Published 1885

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In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties; With 292 Illustrations Engraved on Wood by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after drawings by R.T. Pritchett

by Brassey, Lady [Annie]

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1885. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good. First American edition of In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties by Lady Annie Brassey.. Octavo, xiv, 532pp. Gray cloth, title in gilt on spine, decorative illustrations in gilt and color on covers. Light sunning to spine, some toning and loss of color. Complete with fold-out map and 8 full-page color plates. Solid text block, free of any marks or notable wear. Bookseller's label on front pastedown endpaper, previous ownership notation in pencil on front free endpaper. Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was a world traveler and author. Her best-selling work, A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam,' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months chronicles her family's voyage around the world. She wrote six books in total, including: The Flight of the "Meteor," 1869-71 (1872), A Cruise in the "Eothen," 1872 (1873), A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam,' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878), Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to… Read More
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In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties
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In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties

by Lady Brassey [Annie Brassey]

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London: Longmans, Green & Co. , 1885. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6" . G. Pearson; J. Cooper; R.T. Pritchett. The first edition of this 'Sunbeam' voyage account by Lady Brassey, with folding maps. The first edition of this work. A travel account of Annie Brassey narrating of a later voyage on the famous luxury yacht 'Sunbeam'. Including accounts of Madeira, Trinidad, Jamaica, Venezuela, the Bahamas, Bermudas, and the Azores. Lady Brassey is best known for her book A Voyage in the Sunbeam describing her voyage around the world. Illustrated with nine maps, two of which folding, some in colour, and numerous engravings in text. Collated, bound without map of Jamaica; a facsimile of the map was loosely inserted by a previous owner. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities, gentle cocking forward of the spine. Internally, binding generally firm. Minor spotting to occasional leaf. Very Good
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