Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas and the Shipwreck of the Prince of Wales Cutter, with an Account of Two Years Residence on an Uninhabited Island.

Hardcover. Original green cloth with blind-stamped cover ornamentation; spine lettering and spine bands, gilt. 38 pp. unpaginated (title-page, notice of acknowledgement from Queen Victoria, Preface, Index [Contents], Opinions of the Press, List of Subscribers) + 172 pp. Pagination begins on p. 12. Illustrated with 2 engraved plates and frontispiece engraving of the author, with his name signed across the upper margin. (Copies of this book were “sold by the author”.) Errata slip bound in. Endpaper leaf split over front hinge, but very firm; some foxing, mainly to prelims and plate versos and plate margins; interior otherwise as unbelievably bright as the original cloth for a volume of this age.