Author: EKBOHRN, CARL M.( Editor):
Title: Loggboks-anteckningar under en jordomsegling med fregatten Eugenie åren 1851-53, gjorda och fäderneslandets ungdom tillegnade af en Jungman. Stockholm, P.A. Huldbergs Bokhandel, 1856.
Description: . Pp. (iv), 256. With eight hand coloured lithographed plates, one folding map (foxed) and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Original printed pictorial boards, nicely rebacked, extremities lightly rubbed. First edition of the popular, abridged edition of the first Swedish circumnavigation. (Skogman published the first official account in 1854-55). The coloured plates depict views from Buenos Aires, Lima, San Francisco, Guayaquil, Tahiti and Honolulu, some of inhabitants from Tonga, Hawaii, Tahiti and Niue (Savage Island), and a Chinese theatre. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 395. Larson 222.

Keywords: Travel general, Madeira, South America, the Galapagos, Hawaii, California, Tahiti, Australia, Hong Kong, Canton, the Philippines, Singapore, Mauritius and the Cap.


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