Hardcover
1820 · London
by Hall, Captain Basil
London: John Murray, 1820. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards, paper spine label. Very good. 259 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Signed presentation copy in ink on half title. Colored etched frontispiece and etched drawings by William Havel and a chart of the voyage of the "Alceste" at rear. The author, an officer in the Royal Navy was also a fellow of the Royal Society, and The Royal Geographical. Bookplate. Text tight and generally clean.
(Inventory #: 24311)