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ASPINALL, Algernon. The pocket guide to the West Indies. British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam & the Panama Canal. New and revised edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1939.Sm.8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates and coloured maps. XV,525; XXXIX (advertisements) pp. A fine copy of this compendious work.. [Boeknr.: 36809 ]

€ 65,00

HAYWARD, Walter Brownell. Bermuda. Past and present. A descriptive and historical account of the Sommers Islands. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1912.Original pictorial cloth. With double-page coloured map and many photographic plates. XII,239 pp. All points of interest, picturesque, historical, legendary, have received ample attention, while the reader is brought into contact with the characteristic pleasures of Bermuda life, the government and resources (Preface). - A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 36712 ]

€ 65,00

THOMSON, C. Wyville. The voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic. A preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. London, Macmilland and Co., 1877.2 volumes. Contemporary straighted grained green morocco, gilt fillets round sides, with gilt vignette depicting an armed leg couped at the thigh, top edges gilt. With engraved portrait, 42 folding maps and tables and 176 wood-engravings. XXIX,424; XIV,396 pp. First edition, with bookplate of G.S. Foljambe Osberton depicting half a leg. - Sir Wyville Thomas Charles Thomson (1830-1882) was an eminent naturalist, was chosen by the Royal Navy to lead the scientific staff of a global expedition with the HMS Challenger. The expedition crossed the Atlantic in different latitudes, visiting the Canaries, Bermuda, Brazil, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension. The expedition was considered a great success and honours were showered on Thomson as a result. - Some foxing and offsetting of the plates otherwise a very fine copy with interesting provenance.Borba de Moraes II, p.861; SAB IV, p.498; Spence 1197. [Boeknr.: 7920 ]

€ 550,00


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