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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. First Edition under this title and with some revisions, SCARCE in this US edition probably pirated (originally published under the title: A Voyage in the Sunbeam in 1878) Possibly the use of this new title was an effort by Conkey to pirate Brassey's work without paying royalties. Original red decorative cloth; Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. ow Fair/ndj:x+490pp, bw illus, no map;preface by Thomas Brassey; "Lady Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer and philanthropist best known for her vivid accounts of ocean journeys undertaken with her family. Her husband was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty who made many ocean voyages by steam yacht to test this new technology. Annie Brassey's description of these travels led to her becoming a best-selling author. This volume, first published in 1878, contains her lively and detailed account of her family's circumnavigation in the Sunbeam, the first circumnavigation of the world by a steam yacht. Written in the form of a diary and based on letters sent to her father, this volume mixes exotic descriptions with lively accounts of domestic life onboard, and was immensely popular. The book illustrates the attitudes of middle-class Victorians to exotic locations and cultures."/ cf Brassey, Annie & Barker, Lady Mary Anna; Brassey, Thomas Earl The Last Voyage 1887. [Lady Brassey's journals and notes of her last voyage in the "Sunbeam"; edited by Lady Barker. With a brief memoir by Lord Brassey. With illustrations and a map.] / Brassey, Thomas, Lord 1904 Fifty Years of Progress; and The New Fiscal Policy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 1st edition. Bound in black half-leather with blue boards. Gilt lettering and decorations to spine. A.e.g. Rubbing to corners and spine ends. Some fraying to corners. Some drying to leather spine. Scratches and blemishes to boards. A few dust marks and scuffs to textblock. VG.…