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Condición: New.

viii, (2), 263, (1), 16pp. 111 illus. Sm. 4to. Publisher s illus. cloth.

Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. xii, 532pp; b/w illus. Binding sound; front hinge cracked. Pages clean; very little spotting or foxing. Red cloth boards bumped and frayed at corners, mild wrinkling and scuffing; black titling on front panel remains crisp; spine is darkened, with gilt titling legible but not bright. NOT ex-lib. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Second edition. 8vo (200 mm). [xiv], 452 pp. One folding map and numerous in-text wood engravings, headpieces and decorations. Original illustrated cloth in gilt, green, maroon and light blue on grey cloth; roundel on front cover shows the Sunbeam in full sail in gilt; faded to spine. A Fine copy. Baroness Brassey was a best-selling travel writer who chronicled her family's world travels aboard their luxury yacht, the Sunbeam. Her first published work was "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" (1876) which documented their achievement of being the first to circumnavigate the globe in a steam yacht. On her travels, Lady Brassey collected ethnographic and natural history specimens which were later displayed in her London house before being donated to the Hastings Museum in 1919, where they still are today. In The Trade traces the Sunbeam's travels to Madeira, Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Bermudas, and the Azores. Book.

Longmans, Green and Co. 1899. 8°. 492 New edition with cards and Registers. Original Cloth with gilt imprint. Nahezu verlagsfrisch. Near fine copy. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

Pp. 451, (1), iv. With one folding map and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, printed in silver and gilt, some minor wear to covers. A Swedish version of Lady Brassey's narrative about a voyage to the West Indies in 1883 (First London 1885). Translated by Dr. Anton Blomberg. This voyage went to Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Bermudas. Robinson p. 202.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Pearson, G.; Cooper, J. Ilustrador. First Edition Later Printing. Scarce & unusual travelogue by a 19th-century woman--the Baroness Lady Brassey (Anna Allnutt)--chronicling her 1883 voyage aboard the RYS Sunbeam for a journey of 14,000 miles, traveling from England to Malta, Gibraltar, Madeira, Trinidad, Nassau, Bermuda, Ponta Delgada, to Devonport & Plymouth. This was to be one of her last travel adventures. She first came to fame by taking a voyage around the world in 1876/77, also aboard the Sunbeam. After a lifetime of ill health, Lady Brassey succumbed to malaria while on another voyage to Mauritius & was buried, appropriately, in the sea she loved. This book is dedicated to "the noble band of Navigators & Explorers of all ages & every nation, who have devoted their lives to Scientific Research," in 452 pages with 220 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson & J. Cooper after drawing by R. T. Pritchett. A lovely, nearly pristine, tri-fold map is bound in before page 1 showing "the track of the Yacht 'Sunbeam' from Sep. to Dec. 1883." Orig. published in 1885 in London, this is a slightly later printing (1886) of that First Edition. Hardcover 8vo has elaborately decorated green cloth over boards with gilt lettering to front & spine, stamped images of a settlement in the mountains, a ship, & a lighthouse. Condition is downgraded to Fair because a significant chunk is missing from the upper spine, exposing the underlying stitched signatures; other paper loss of a more shallow nature elsewhere down the spine. Heavy rubbing to extremities, both hinges cracked, but text block is secure & unmarked. Pages generally quite clean with moderate tanning, heavier around edges. Many names in pen from former owners & old bookstore stamps to front endpapers; interior pages unmarked. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

London, Spottiswoode and Co. for Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth, all edges gilt; pp. xix, 492; wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations in the text by G. Pearson after A.Y. Bingham, large folding colour-printed lithographic map by Edward Weller (re-attached); extremities with a little wear, hinges strengthened ownership inscription on verso of frontispiece resulting in a little ofsetting on recto, otherwise an attractive copy. New edition. Encouraged by the success of her travel books The Flight of the "Meteor" ([s.l.: 1866) and A Cruise in "Eothen" (London: 1873), Baroness Brassey (1839-1887) and her husband Thomas, Baron Brassey (1836-1918), decided to undertake a circumnavigation in the Sunbeam, their 531-ton, three-masted, topsail schooner, with a 350-horsepower steam engine, which had been launched in 1874. The Sunbeam embarked on 1 July 1876 with a complement of forty-four comprising the Brasseys and their children, a small party of friends, a professional crew, and a complete domestic staff. Their voyage took them 'across the south Atlantic, through the Strait of Magellan into the Pacific Ocean, continuing by way of Tahiti, Hawaii, and Japan to Penang and thence to Ceylon, Aden, and the Red Sea. While the Sunbeam passed through the Suez Canal, Annie Brassey and the children went overland to Cairo to visit the pyramids, rejoining the party at Alexandria. Their arrival at Hastings on 27 May 1877 completed the eleven-month voyage. It had been a complete success, uneventful except for a dangerous flooding of the decks in a high sea off Ushant and their rescue of the crew of a ship on fire near Rio. The monotony of the days at sea was varied by excursions ashore, planned and led by Annie Brassey to the colourful street markets of Rio, ValparaÃso, and Singapore, and to scenes of natural beauty in Tahiti, Ceylon, and Hawaii with its thrilling volcanoes. The voyage was to make Annie Brassey a celebrity not because she had been round the world in a luxury yacht, but because she struck exactly the right note in her book about the adventure, using the entries in her journal to describe rambles ashore and daily life afloat: this was lively enough with five children under fourteen, a dog, three birds, and a kitten aboard. A Voyage in the "Sunbeam" (1878) was a solid work of 508 pages with maps and wood-engravings. It was a best-seller overnight, reached its nineteenth edition in 1896, and was translated into French, German, Italian, Swedish, and Hungarian [.] The cruises of the Sunbeam may have resembled family picnics rather than voyages of discovery, but Annie Brassey, who inspired and organized them, is not to be denied the status of a true traveller. A poor sailor, never really well at sea, she dared all it could do to her, in order that she might visit the farthest corners of the earth. As her husband wrote, "the voyage would not have been undertaken and assuredly it would never have been completed without the impulse derived from her perseverance and determination"' (ODNB). The 'Preface to the New Edition' states that 'the letterpress has only been slightly curtailed and a copious selection has been made from the original series of illustrations' (p. vii), and the Appendix on pp. [481]-492 contains a summary of the entire voyage, compiled from the log-book. Cf. Theakstone p. 32 (1st ed.).

4to (267 x 184mm), pp. [2 (inserted limitation l.)], xiv, [2 (maps, verso blank)], 532; wood-engraved title-illustration printed in red and black ink on india paper and mounted, wood-engraved dedication-border, illustrations, head- and tailpieces, and initials, all by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after R.T. Pritchett, printed on india and mounted, one lithographic chart of 'Temperature of Air and Water' and 9 lithographic maps, all by and after Edward Weller, printed in colours on india and mounted, 2 of the maps folding; occasional light spotting, fore-edges of a few ll. and one folding map slightly creased and chipped, upper hinge skilfully reinforced and front flyleaf skilfully reinserted; original half vellum gilt over grey cloth by Simpson and Bevington, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut; some light marking, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, nonetheless a very good, clean copy; provenance: Maud Ernestine (née Rendel), Lady Gladstone of Hawarden, 3 January 1890 (1865-1941, dated presentation inscription on front flyleaf, 'Miss Maud Rendel from Lord Brassey with sincere congratulations and good wishes'; engraved bookplate as Lady Gladstone on upper pastedown) Linda Sloss (20th-century bookplate on front free endpaper; inscription dated February 1969 on front flyleaf, gifting the book to:) 'Muz?.First edition, no. 226 of 250 large-paper copies with illustrations on india. In the Trades, Tropics, & the Roaring Forties, the last work to be published during her lifetime by Annie Brassey, describes a voyage undertaken with her husband Thomas, Baron Brassey in 1883. They travelled from Dartmouth to Funchal as passengers on the Norham Castle; then embarked upon the Sunbeam, which crossed the Atlantic to the Carribean, reaching Trinidad at the end of October 1883; and then proceeded via Venezuela, Jamiaca, and Cuba to the Bahamas. The ship departed for its return journey on 22 November 1883, crossing the Atlantic via Bermuda and the Azores, and returning to Dartmouth on 30 December 1883. As a girl, Lady Brassey had been fascinated by botany, and this voyage 'gave her ample opportunities for engaging in her botanical pursuits. In Venezuela [she] travelled by mule to reach the luxuriant verdure of the jungle. There was the Bog Walk in Jamaica, to the beauty of which no words could do justice. She admired the wild luxuriance of nature in the Azores, where the vegetation appeared to combine the products of temperate and tropic zones' (Theakstone). The first edition of In the Trades, Tropics, & the Roaring Forties was published in two forms: this large-paper issue in a half vellum binding, which was limited to 250 copies, and the more commonly encountered octavo issue bound in cloth. This copy was inscribed by Lord Brassey on 3 January 1890 (some three years after his wife's death), to the Hon. Maud Rendel, who would marry Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden on 31 January 1890 it seems likely that this volume was given to her as an engagement present. Thomas Brassey (1836-1918), was elected the Liberal Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1868 and held the seat until 1886. In 1880 he was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty in Gladstone's second administration; in 1884 Maud Rendel's uncle G.W. Rendel took over the role and Brassey was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, holding the position until the end of the parliament in 1885. Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Gladstone travelled to Norway with the Brasseys on the Sunbeam in August 1885, and in 1886 he raised Brassey to the peerage in his resignation honours. Cundall, West Indies, 2344; Theakstone, p. 32; Theakstone (2017), p. 52; Robinson, Wayward Women, p. 204.

Large Paper Edition, #201 of 250 copies. Large Paper Edition, #201 of 250 copies. 9 maps, illustrated throughout with tipped in plates. xiv, [ii], 532pp. 4to. Inscribed on the ffep by Lady Brassey to Mr. Treacher in North Borneo in April 1887 (She died in September). The Brasseys visited Madeira, Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Azores on this trip. Bound in modern full green morocco, gilt spine. Fine in slipcase 9 maps, illustrated throughout with tipped in plates. xiv, [ii], 532pp. 4to.

Square 8vo. Pp. xii, 68. With 31 auto type illustrations, being beautiful photographs taken by Colonel Stuart-Wortley, protected by tissue guards. Publisher's pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, g.e., extremities somewhat rubbed. Binding lightly shaken but firm. Old ownership signature on front endpaper. Occasionally minor spotting. Small tear neatly repaired to inner margin of pages 41/2. First edition of this charming book about Tahiti based on Stuart-Wortley's visit to the island in 1880. (The same year as the Kingdom of Tahiti became of French colony). Stuart-Wortley has written the preface and the main text is written by Annie Brassey who visited Tahiti in 1876. She made the grand tour of the island and fell in love with it. Robinson p.202. Theakstone p. 32-3.

Six watercolours measuring 355 by 505mm. Abyssinia, India, Borneo, 1886 - Lady Anna Brassey (1839-1887) was one of the great Victorian travellers and her accounts on board her luxury yacht the Sunbeam are classics of the genre and were bestsellers in their day. The images here all date from the final voyage on the Sunbeam (1886-87) during which Brassey died of malaria and was buried at sea. Pritchett was educated at Kings and made a career at Enfield gunmakers until the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858, which was the firm's major client. At that point, having exhibited at the Royal Academy several times from 1851, he devoted his life to painting. He joined the staff of Punch magazine in the 1860s and began to travel widely through Europe and then around the world in 1880-2. He accompanied Sir Thomas and Lady Brassey several times on their ship Sunbeam, during which time he composed these images. He provided the illustrations for In the Trades, the Tropics and the Roaring Forties (1885), and The Last Voyage of the 'Sunbeam (1889). The images, all in excellent condition, are as follows: 1. ?Dragging the Canoe with Lady Brassey at Low Water. Madai N. Borneo.? This images appears on page 199 of The Last Voyage. 2. ?December 10 Going out for the evening. Port Said.? This image appears as a lithograph facing page 1 in The Last Voyage. where it is titled ?Port Said. Coaling Party.? 3. ?Feb. 1st 1887. Maha Jhikarpur.? This image doesn't appear in the book, but the subject is covered in pp.11-12 in the text. 4. ?December 20 1886. Abyssinian Asab.? This image precedes the text by a matter of days. The book commences on Christmas Day 1886 at Port Said. This was executed en route. 5. Untitled but India. Dated 1886, it would have been painted in the opening days of the year, possibly on the 13th at the bazaars at Shirkapur. 6. Untitled, but India. A hunting party on elephants. This rather glamorous image documents the cheetah hunt described on page 39 in The Last Voyage. cf. Robinson, Wayward Women, p203.