Author: GUILLEMARD, F.H.H.
Title: The Cruise Of The Marchesa To Kamschatka & New Guinea: With Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago. Two Volume Set.
Description: First Editions; Demy 8vo; Vol. I. xx, 284; coloured frontispiece "Pericrocotus Marchesae", 5 coloured maps, one folding with illustrations, 53 b/w. text illustrations, list of birds of Kamschatka, index; Vol. II. pp. xx, 399; coloured frontispiece " Eos Insularis", 8 maps of which four and folding one in b/w. the others coloured, 89 text illustrations, list of birds, shells, and rhopalocera collected, vocabulary of the Sulu, languages of the Waigiou and Jobi Island, table of exports from Netherlands' India, South Celebes, Amboina, and Ternate for the year 1884, uniformly bound in half red leather with marbled boards, titles lettered in gilt on spines, bindings a little worn, light foxing to the first few pages of both volumes, very good set. London; John Murray; 1886.

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