In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1885. Author's Edition. 8vo. Very Good. Item #19123

A vibrant copy of this 19th-century nautical travel memoir.

Anna Brassey is most known for her work, "A Voyage in the Sunbeam", "describing their journey round the world in 1876–1877 with a complement of 43, including family, friends and crew, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five languages. Her accounts of later voyages include Sunshine and Storm in the East (1880); In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (1885); and The Last Voyage (1889, published posthumously). She had published privately earlier works including A Flight of the Meteor, detailing two cruises in the Mediterranean on their earlier yacht Meteor and A Voyage in the Eothen a description of their travels to Canada and the United States in 1872. She was also involved with the publication of Colonel Henry Stuart-Wortley's 1882 Tahiti, a Series of Photographs." - wiki

Red pictorial cloth, with titling and illustration stamped in gilt and black. Square tight binding. Clean interior, save for remnant of former bookplate to front pastedown and an 1884 gift inscription to front flyleaf. Mild rubbing and edge wear. Spine very lightly sunned. Presents handsomely inn a clear, archival mylar dust jacket.

Price: $125.00