£250
Fine Binding, Royal Navy. Penrose (The Rev. John), Lives of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, K.C.B., and Captain James Trevenen, first edition, London: John Murray, 1850, each biography with a portrait frontispiece of the subjects, lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart after Charles Allingham, finely bound by Folthorp of Brighton, signed with a ticket to recto pastedown, in contemporary dark blue morocco gilt, the covers outlined with a single-fillet enclosing a rolled gothic architectural border, its corners blocked with anchors, conforming six-compartment spine of raised bands, lettered in the second, rubbed, upper-joint splitting near head, recto head with light loss, other lighter wear, anthemion turn-ins, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers, 8vo, [Beddie 2485; not in Hill]
Trevenen's life contains an important section concerning Captain James Cook's third and final voyage that includes a previously unpublished note on the death of Cook in Hawaii, 1779.
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