Byron Hon John (5 results)

1st edition. 8vo. lxxxii + 230pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and 17 plates, 2 maps. Original blue cloth with gilt device to upper board and gilt lettering to slightly dulled spine. Hakluyt Society Volume CXXII, Series II. US$15.

Paperback reprint of the 1743 and 1785 editions. Introduiction and epilogue by Alan Guerney. XXVI, 240 PP. Fp: The wreck of the Wager. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.5 x 13.8. Shipwrecked in the Patagonia channels, Chile, in 1741. A voyage to the South Seas in the Years 1740-1, by John Bulkeley and John Cummins was first published in 1743. The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron was published in 1768.

pp. xvi, 219, 3 of adverts. 8vo. Original blind stamped morocco, spine has lost it's polished surface. All edges gilt.

First Edition. Pp. 288, 8 plates, title page vignette, pictorial endpapers, 2 full page maps, sources, index; demy 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip faintly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Collins, London, 1975. First edition. *The 40-gun ship Wager was detailed to accompany Anson on his famous voyage of circumnavigation in 1740, in search of Spanish treasure ships. Rounding the Horn, Wager was driven ashore on the Pacific coast of Tierra del Fuego. The surviving crew split into three mutinous factions. Midshipman Byron (future grandfather of the poet), aligned himself with the ship's captain.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. 16mo. 155 + 1pp including Publisher's list at rear. Black and white engraved frontis plus vignette to title page. Contemporary half leather binding, blue/green marbled boards and black leather wraparound spine, titles gilt to gilt banded spine. Attractive prizelabel to front pastedown dated 1832. Covers : edges rubbed with board showing through at corners, front inner hinge cracked . Contents : foxing marks to a few pages in text. Clean tight copy. VG.