First edition. 12 coloured mounted plates and a double-page coloured map, with profuse typo etchings in the text. Large 4to. Contemporary quarter morocco with cloth boards, a little marked. The leather rubbed at joints and spine extremities, with some splitting to front joint. Title page with minor marks. A very good clean copy otherwise. With the armorial bookplate of the Naval & Military Club on the front pastedown endpaper. [v], 198pp. London, Marcus Ward, 1878.