Captain George Bayly (5 results)
A Life on the Ocean Wave. The Journals of Captain George Bayly, 1824-1844. [Voyages to Australia, India and the Pacific . (dustwrapper subtitle)]
[BAYLY, Captain George] STATHAM, Erica and Rica ERICKSON (editors)
Published by The Miegunyah Press, Carlton South, 1998
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Carlton South, The Miegunyah Press, 1998. Octavo, xviii, 365 pages with 17 illustrations and maps plus 16 pages of plates and a genealogical tree on the front free endpaper. Papered boards; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper.
Autograph Letter Signed from Mrs Mary Bayly, describing to 'Mrs. Barrow' the ill-health that prevents her from accepting her invitation to take part in 'Temperance Work'.
Mrs Mary Bayly, missionary; founder of 'Mothers' Society', 1853, author of 'Ragged Homes and How to mend them' (1859), temperance campaigner with her husband Captain George Bayly of Trinity House
Published by 5 Kempshott Road Streatham Common. 15 February no year
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basket3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of glue from mount. It would give her 'very much pleasure' to accept the invitation 'to join you & other dear workers in the Temperance Work you are planning for April, but I am sorry to say at present I am quite liad aside from all work'. She describes how she… has been ill since the previous October. She is now regaining strength, and is going into the country and will probably 'remain away for 2 or 3 months[.] The doctors speak hopefully of entire recovery so that I may hope some day to be at work again, but I am afraid the next 6 months will have to be spent in much idleness'. She sitll has the 'sweet privildege [sic] of remember & praying for those who are carrying on the great mission', and she will 'bear your meetings in mind'. Signed 'Mary Bayly'.
Published by Kegan Paul Trench London, 1885
- Hardcover
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United KingdomJane & John Kinnaird
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Add to basketviii + 224pp + 44p advertisements. Cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Covers little scuffed and rubbed. Corners and spine ends little bumped and frayed. Spine leaning. Inner hinges beginning to split, but still quite tight. Page edges and a few pages little foxed and marked. 20x14cms.
Published by Kegan Paul Trench & Co - 1st Edition, 1885
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Seller: Rhos Point Books, Conwy, United KingdomRhos Point Books
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Add to basketHardback in Fair condition. No Dust Jacket. Dark blue cloth boards lightly rubbed and soiled with a little fraying to spine edges. Gold lettering to front and spine. There is a vignette of a Trinity House buoy with flag on the waves with a sailing ship in the background in gold relief to front of boards. 224 pages followed by a…44 page list of Kegan Paul Trench & Co's publications. Slight cracking to inside of boards.Faint signs of an inscription to front end papers.Jean Francois de galoup Comte De Laperouse was a French Naval Officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. Louis XV1 took a keen interest in the voyage and helped draft the plans and itinerary.
More imagesPublished by Kegan Paul, London, 1885
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart copy of this semi-autobiographical work on a sea expedition in the nineteenth century led by Captain George Bayly. In the original pictorial cloth binding. A fascinating recount of nineteenth-century sea voyages that led to the discovery of relics of the sea expedition commande…d by French naval commander Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse. His expedition had been wrecked on the coasts of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands.Written by Captain George Bayly.In the original pictorial cloth binding with gilt stamping to the front board and spine.This copy also came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was allegedly the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to the front board and spine. Externally, very smart, with a few small marks to the boards and a small amount of bumping to the head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, hinges strained but firm. Binding is slightly tender in a few places, but is generally firm. Pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
