Author: GUILLEMARD, F.H.H. [FRANCIS HENRY HILL]
Title: The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago
Description: New York, Scribner & Welford. 1889, Second Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xviii, 455 pages, coloured folding maps, plates and text illustrations (all present), one of the Kamschatka maps is split into tow parts. Beautifully professionally rebacked with gilt decorations. Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852 - 1933) was a reader of geography at Cambridge University, a traveller, writer and naturalist. He served as a naturalist on the expedition into Southeast Asia about which he wrote in his The Cruise of the Marchesa which became a popular travel book. Very Good.

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