The voyage of the 'Challenger.'. The Atlantic a preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876 by Sir C. Wyville Thomson ... In two volumes
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882)
Category
Books
Date
1877
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 3163526
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates . 8vo. Vol. 1 only. - Provenance: Not indigenous. Meade Collection. Presented to the National Trust by Miss Daphne Meade, 1999, and formerly in the library of Thurland Castle, Lancashire. Ink stamp: “Frankleigh House Library”. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Rev. The Honble Sidney Meade. Binding: Half vellum, red cloth boards, black spine-label, gold-lettered. – Attached undated letter from newspaper referring to ‘deep soundings in the Pacific’ signed by Rear-Admiral Wharton
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Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882)