Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1358
  • 1358

Williams, Edward Adams

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400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • The Cruise of the Pearl round the World, with an account of the operations of the Naval Brigade in India. London: Richard Bentley, 1859
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (200 x 120mm.), xii, 312pp., 1 plate, original blindstamped blue cloth, light brown endpapers, unopened, slipcase

Literature

Forbes 2349; not in Borba de Moraes or Hill

Catalogue Note

UNCOMMON. Williams sailed to India by way of Rio de Janeiro, the Straits of Magellan, Callao, the Sandwich Islands, Honolulu and China. He then records military operations during the Indian Mutiny in the north of India.