LOT 3081
11th July 2016
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LOT 3081
BRASSEY, Lady [Annie]. In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties… 14,000 Miles in the 'Sunbeam' in 1883. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1885. First edition, 8vo (222 x 137mm.) Decorative title, 7 maps with decorative surround, 2 folding maps, 1 table, numerous illustrations. (Light browning occasional light spotting or minor soiling, map titled 'Part of Venezuela' loosely inserted.) Original pictorial cloth blocked in gilt, seascape tondo and foliate decoration to upper-cover, gilt lettering and foliate design to spine (extremities lightly scuffed, head and foot of spine bumped, spine slightly darkened, stitching weak in places). Together with a clipped signature of Annie Brassey on a torn fragment of notebook discussing 'applications for the secretaryship of the Royal Thames Yacht Club'. Provenance: Nancy Gordon (presentation inscription from her husband dated 'Christmas 1884' to half-title); The Michael Gilkes Collection.
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