Belcher Capt (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 vols. Original cloth. Complete with all plates, coloured lithographs and folding maps. Early repair at top of spine, but not affecting the look of the book. A handsome complete copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good + overall. First edition. Lacks 2 plates, 2 maps. "The voyage was intended for the exploration and survey of the Pacific Coast of North and South America and the Pacific basin. The various harbors along the coast of California and northwest to Alaska were surveyed, and a month's journey in open boats was made up the Sacramento River from San Francisco Bay. The Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, etc., were visited. Included are various appendices relating to Nicaragua, the vegetation of various parts of Australia, Africa, etc." 8vo, 2 vols, (xxii) (2) 387 pp, 1 of 3 maps (lacking 2 maps) in front pocket & plates, 8 pp adverts (&) (vi) 474 pp, steel engraved plates. Original green gilt stamped cloth, with gilt title on new cloth spines, blind impressed decoration. Hill p. 20. Sabin 4390. Howes B318.

Cloth over boards. Condition: Fair. First edition. Two volume set. Hardcover cloth (green) over boards. 8vo. Pagination: volume I -- xx, 383 pp; volume II -- vii, 419 pp. Illustration: 9 full colour engraved plates, 3 b/w engraved plates, 1 b/w engraved map, and 22 b/w in text wood engravings (note: missing from volume I is the frontispiece and the two loose maps that would have been held in a pocket on the back pastedown, which is also absent); volume II --Â a b/w engraved frontispiece, 10 b/w engraved plates, and 3 b/w in text wood engravings. Uniform library binding. Short title and volume number stamped in gilt on the spines. Condition of volume I: Bookplate and "676" sticker on front pastedown. Tear in the fore edge of page vii/vii. Leaf containing xv/xvi missing. Two charts and frontispiece missing. Head darkened. Text block is lightly foxed and age toned. Some small brown marks. Binding strong and square. Spine sunned. Boards and spine worn, rubbed, and lightly bumped in the corners. Condition of volume II:ÂBookplate and "677" sticker on front pastedown. A second bookplate pasted on the verso of the title page reads " Rugby School. Rev. R. B. Mayor's House Library 185_."ÂText block is lightly foxed and age toned. Some small brown marks. Binding strong and square. Spine and head sunned. Corners bumped, with the front right corner also creased. Boards and spine worn and rubbed, with small tears in the tail and in the front hinge by the crown. Overall condition of the set is fair.

(London: Royal Geographical Society, 1832). 8vo. Boards. (pp.278-304). With engrv. map. (Extract Royal Geographical Society, Volume 2).

Condition: Very good overall. Engraved linen backed sea chart, showing Resolution Bay, located in current day Vanuatu (New Hebrides); the bay was named by Captain James Cook in 1774 (who also named the islands the New Hebrides), after his ship the H.M.S. Resolution. In 1840 Belcher was surveying for the British government at the time he made this chart, but was diverted to take part in the first Opium War. During the war he made the first British survey of Hong Kong Harbor. With soundings and coral marked. Also indicated are Point Carteret, Point Resolution, Missionary House, Huts, and Watering Place Hot Spring. Mounted on white linen with green silk borders at 3 sides & green tie, for rolling and closing the map. With the Hydrographic emblem and price. Chart Number 1508 at lower right corner; sold by R. B. Bate Agent for the Admiralty Charts, 11 Poultry. 11 1/4 x 10 1/4". Some spotting at top and bottom margins, the green silk borders a bit rubbed.