SPRY, William James Joseph.
The cruise of her majesty’s ship “Challenger”. Voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands ... With map and illustrations.
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876.
8vo, pp. xviii, 388; with 12 plates and a folding map, numerous illustrations in text; marginal slit to Z1 (repaired to verso), some creasing to map; very good in contemporary dark blue calf by Bickers & Son, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges and endpapers; spine and part of front board sunned, slight wear to extremities, a few abrasions to covers; ‘Ronald M. Fraser from Mrs R. Paddison Dec. 21st 1899’ inscribed to front free endpaper.
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The cruise of her majesty’s ship “Challenger”. Voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands ... With map and illustrations.
First edition. A private account, by a lieutenant on board, of the Challenger expedition (1872-76), one of the most ambitious scientific voyages of the 19th century and often considered to mark the birth of oceanography. Among the places visited and described here are the various Atlantic islands, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, the Antarctic regions, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Moluccas, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Hawaii and other Pacific islands, Chile, the Straits of Magellan and the Plate.
Ferguson 16093; Forbes 3167; O’Reilly & Reitman 1305; Spence 1155.
