The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea. With notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago. ...

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London: John Murray, 1889. Roy. 8vo. Orig. cloth gilt illustrated front cover (rebacked preserving the orig. spine strip). (xviii, 456pp.). With col. frontispiece map, 139 illusts. of which 27 are full-page, and 14 maps of which some are fold. Ex-library copy. NOTE: The Marchesa, a schooner yacht sailed from England in 1881 to the seas of China and Japan, the East Indies and New Guinea, before returning to England in 1884.