- 1296
Tyerman, Daniel, and George Bennet
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Description
- Journal of Voyages and Travels by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq., deputed from the London Missionary Society, to visit their various Stations in the South Sea Islands, China, India, &c. between the years 1821 and 1829. Compiled from original documents by James Montgomery. London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831
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FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 130mm.), (vol.1) xxiv, 566pp.; (vol.2) viii, 568pp., 14 engraved plates, contemporary dark red cross-grained morocco, gilt spines, raised flat bands, covers bordered and decorated in gilt with the royal crown as centrepiece, the dedication to George IV gold-tooled on the upper cover of vol.1 "Dedicated by Permission to his late Majesty King George the Fourth" [died 26 June 1830], yellow endpapers, gilt edges
Literature
Bagnall 5667; Ferguson 1487; Forbes 800; Hill (2004) 1731; cf. Löwendahl 892 (German edition)
Catalogue Note
THE DEDICATION COPY. The work is dedicated by the London Missionary Society to the king.
The first volume is entirely devoted to Tyerman and Bennet's Pacific voyages, visiting Tahiti, the Leeward, Hawaiian and other islands. Thereafter they travelled to New Zealand and Australia, Java, Singapore, China and India. Tyerman died on the return journey in 1828 in Madagascar.