1850 The Whaleman's Adventures in the Southern Ocean

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

An edited and compiled version of the account of the Reverend Henry T. Cheever aboard his ship, the 'Commodore Preble' on a whaling voyage to the South Seas and Pacific Ocean. 

Edited by the Reverend William Scoresby, an English whaler and explorer in his own right. 

Containing eight illustrated plates, collated and complete. 

Bound by Bone & Son, with their bookbinder's plate to the rear pastedown. 

Containing the bookplate and ink inscription of noted English zoologist Leonard Harrison Matthews, to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. 

This copy came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.