Author: BELCHER, CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD
Title: Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842. Including Details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841. 2 Volumes.
Description: London, Henry Colburn. 1843, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 volumes, xxxviii, 387 pages, vi, 474 pages; 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (lacking one), 18 engraved plates, 20 vignettes. Contemporary half leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine title labels on green leather at top of spine, black lables with name of author and volume at bottom of spine (partially chipped off), leather split on one side of vol. 2 but binding still very firm, a few plates mildly foxed. Overall a solid and nice set of this account. Much on California, Alaska, Hawaiian islands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Dutch East Indies, etc. Good.

Keywords: Captain Beechey, Valparaiso, Panama, San Blas, Sandwich Islands, Hawaiian Hawaii, Port Etches, King Williams'sound, Point Riou, Mulgrave, Mount St Elias, Sitka, New Archangel, Norfolk Sound, Friendly Cove, Nootka Alaska, Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey,


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