Bay and Lake of Tunis Mediterranean Gulf of Tunis by WHARTON, Captain W.J.L - 1893

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, pages 777-874, 2 page of advertisements at front, articles include: Address on the Opening of the Session 1885-6, An Exploration of the Goajira Peninsula, U.S. of Colombia, Report on Admiralty Surveys for the Year 1884 and Letters from Colonel Prejevalsky, A map of The Goajira Peninsula, U.S. of Colombia, Compete monthly issue

Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. 1968. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good+ condition. Cream cloth boards, green title patch to spine. Australiana Facsimile Editions No 188. Black & white plates and facsimile documents (2) & fold-out maps and charts. An excellent copy. 400 pages. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3 - 4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback.

London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Book measures 27x20.cm. lvi, 400pp, portrait frontis, 6 maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates, [ LACKING ONE MAP FROM POCKET ]. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with gilt lines and lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed, abrasion wear on edges, corners. Generally binding in good clean condition. Internally, hinge joints starting to split, slightly loose, some spotting, browning. Pages and maps in good clean condition. A good copy. . Cloth. Near Very Good. Small Quarto.

London. Published at the Admiralty 30th June , 1887. Lithographed map, approx 32 x 41 cms, colour-printed, by Malby & Sons under the superintendence of Captain W.J.L. Wharton, separately issued priced 3d. Folded for use, with a couple of small tears at the folds. Together with: card list of the British fleet present; programme; small printed request for tickets. Apparently annotated in the hand of Surgeon Commander Ross C.I.E., who was involved in the organisation of celebrations on the Isle of Wight. Ross viewed the celebrations from H.M.S. Jumma, one of the ships appropriated to officials and visitors. Before the event he pasted clippings from the Naval and Military Gazette and other sources detailing the arrangements to the programme and the verso of the map. Map

London, 1892. unbound. very good. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 22 3/8" x 35.25".<br/><br/> Beautifully detailed map of the coast line of Kherson Bay in the northern section of the Black Sea. Soundings in feet. Minor overall wear.<br/><br/>

London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait, 4 folding map and charts, 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi, 400 pp. 4to. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered gilt, facsimile signature of Cook in gilt to upper cover. Some soiling to boards, hinges cracked, leaves toned, title page working loose, very good. First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait, 4 folding map and charts, 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi, 400 pp. 4to. Beddie 683. Provenance: W.K. Bixby (bookplate); Missouri Historical Society (presentation stamp from Bixby and a few other discrete stamps; bookplate)

London, 1896. unbound. very good. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 38.75" x 25.5".<br/><br/> Shows the northeast coastal region of Italy, with Chioggia and Venice in beautiful detail. Includes soundings in fathoms and lighthouses are denoted with red and yellow hand coloring. Based on Italian surveys from 1886. Minor chipping along bottom edge.<br/><br/>