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Book Description 1st edition. With B&W & colour illustrations. Owner's stamps on front free end paper & title page otherwise a clean, bright copy Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # BOOKS280348I
Book Description 1st edition. 8vo. 190pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece, colour and b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial d/w. with black spine lettered in white, some minor wear to edges. Ex-libris Andrew David. ISBN 0723305501 US$14. Seller Inventory # 186167
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 190pp. 22cm. 11 colour illustrations. Numerous black and white illustrations in the text, including charts. Illustrated end papers. Appendix. Sources. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Shelf wear to lower edge of boards. Gift message on half title. A good clean copy. Seller Inventory # 24757
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Art, Sketches, maps (illustrator). 1st. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. 1st. 23cm By 16cm. For four years from 1848 HMS Acheron was engaged in charting the NZ coast and harbours. Such was the standard of her work that some charts were still in use well over a century later. The story of the expedition is fully told here for the first time. The 95 illustrations (11 in colour) were mainly created by artists aboard the sail/steam ship with many published for the first time, art endpapers and DJ, maps and sketches. 190 pages. Seller Inventory # 001306
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy with some laid in newspaper ephemera, Ghost of a pencil name to the end paper. A very good jacket. Seller Inventory # 032809
Book Description Condition: Very Good. 190 pages. Seller Inventory # 1259323
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 190 pages, many maps and illustrations. The Acheron was sent under orders from the Admiralty to complete the first full and accurate survey of the coasts and harbours of New Zealand. Seller Inventory # 010104
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. The jacket is slightly faded in places and has some scuffed edges. Seller Inventory # 068208
Book Description Hardback. Epsom Trust plate on front endpaper verso. Seller Inventory # 9966890
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. HMS Acheron was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Sheerness in 1838. Between 1848 and 1851 she made a coastal survey of New Zealand, the first such survey since Captain Cook. CONDITION Black bds with gilt title (unworn) signed by author to title page, 190 pages with numerous illus and maps in colour and b/w reproduced from historic sources. Bright and crisp in unworn DJ. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 16932