THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. & SWIRE (Herbert).

The Voyage of the Challenger.

A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, by Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. With a foreword by Major Roger Swire and introduction by G. Robert Fowler. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in Swire’s journals. The plates coloured by hand. 2 vols., small folio, original blue and white buckram, gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, blue buckram slipcase. London, Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.

£900.00

No. 57 of 300 copies. Some foxing to the first and last few pages, spines a little browned with a small loss of the gilt on the second vol, slipcase slightly marked and worn at the extremities.

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