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Lot 178
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022
9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022
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[EXPLORATION -- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND]. BRENCHLEY, Julius (1816-1873). Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873.
8vo (255 x 185 mm). Partially colored folding map, 2 chromolithographed plates (one folding), 8 wood engravings, and 50 engraved natural history plates (40 hand-colored). Original green cloth, gilt-decorated with a vignette of a canoe on front cover, spine gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). Provenance: Mr. James Clifford (bookplate); Frank S. Streeter (bookplate, his sale Christie's New York, 16 April 2007, Lot 69.
FIRST EDITION, describing the voyage of the Curacoa, which sailed from Sydney to the archipelagoes of the western Pacific under the command of Sir William Wiseman, notable for the natural historical data collected. The expedition made stops at Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. THE FRANK S. STREETER COPY. Ferguson 7376; Hill 181.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil