Lot 450
  • 450

ERSKINE, JOHN ELPHINSTONE

Estimate
400 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees. London: John Murray, 1853
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 136mm.), viii, 488pp., large folding engraved map, 7 plates [4 chromolithographed], 11 text illustrations, original blindstamped purple cloth gilt, yellow endpapers, unopened, blue morocco-backed cloth box, spine slightly faded

Captain Erskine sailed from Russell, New Zealand, to Niue or Savage Island, then visited Manua, Tutuila, and Upolu of the Samoan Islands, Vava'u, Lifuka, Tongatabu, Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Port Jackson.

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillipps, with his press-mark

Literature

Hill (2004) 568

Condition

A good copy
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