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A Voyage In The "Sunbeam" Our Home On The Ocean For Eleven Months With 118 Illustrations Engraved On Wood By G. Pearson Chiefly After Drawings By The Hon.A.Y. Bingham. Tenth Ediiton (In Fine Full Morocco Binding With Silk Moire Endpapers)
Brassey, Anna Alnutt; Preface And Letter To The Times By Thomas, Lord Brassey. 118 Illustrations Engraved On Wood By G. Pearson Chiefly After Drawings By The Hon. A. Y. Bingham
Language: English
Published by Longmans, Green, And Co., London, 1886
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 5th or later Edition. Xvi, 511 Pp. Full Black Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt To Spine And Boards, Tooled Gilt Turns, Silk Moire Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Tenth Edition. Presentation Copy Inscribed From Lord Brassey In 1894 To Miss Der -----(Not Signed By Lady Brassey). Thomas Brassey, 1St Earl Brassey (18…36 -1918) Was A British Liberal Party Politician, Governor Of Victoria, Australia, 1895-1900, And Founder Of The Naval Annual. Between 6 July 1876 And 27 May 1877 Brassey Circumnavigated The World In His Steam-Assisted Three-Masted Topsail-Yard Schooner Sunbeam, Another Yacht Designed For Him By St Clare Byrne. This Voyage Is Said To Have Been The First Circumnavigation By A Private Yacht.At The Age Of 79 Brassey Sailed His Yacht Sunbeam To Mudros Bay In Order To Support The Troops As A Hospital Ship During The Ill-Fated Gallipoli Campaign. Signed by Author(s).
