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Fragments of voyages and travels : Third series / by Captain Basil Hall., R.N. F.R.S.

Captain Basil Hall

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/3138

Author

Edition

Second edition.

Imprint

Edinburgh ; London: Robert Cadell ; Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1832.

Physical Description

3 vols. ; 15 cm.

Series Title

Third series

General Note

Each volume has a different additional steel-engraved vignette title-plate dated 1832.
All three volumes printed by T. Constable, 1 Thistle Street, Edinburgh.

Responsibility Note

The addiitional engraved title-plate to volume I shows a vignette map of India signed 'J. & C. Walker Sculp.' ; those to volumes II and III show views of 'Adams Park, Ceylon and 'Near the Poodecherum Pass' respectively, signed as engraved by 'R. Sears' after drawings by William Daniell R.A. based on sketches by the author.

Provenance

Presented by the author on 15 December 1834.

Binding Note

Publisher's half calf, brown moiré cloth-covered boards, maroon morocco spine labels lettered 'HALL'S / FRAGMENTS / THIRD / SERIES / I. ( - III.)'

Subject

Seafaring life
Voyages and travels
India, Description and travel

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