Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, during the years 1836-1842, including details of the naval operations in China from Dec. 1840 to Nov. 1841. ... / By Captain Sir Edward Belcher, ... In two volumes.
Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1843
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3072699
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of v. 1. Pencil price on front free endpaper in v. 1: "2 [vols?] 20/." Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. Sapphire.’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full publisher's blue cloth; blind blocked decorative panel design on boards; gilt lettering on spines.
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877), author