Royal Navy. [Travel] Hall (Commander W.H., RN) & Bernard...

Hammer

£70

Royal Navy. [Travel] Hall (Commander W.H., RN) & Bernard (W.D.), Narrative of the Voyages and Services of The Nemesis from 1840 to 1843, and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong-Kong, and Remarks on the Characters & Habits of the Chinese, second edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1844, illustrated with 4 plates, in-text woodcuts, and 4 folding maps of mixed sizes, Track Chart, England to China with a stable tear at fold, East Coast of China map with a slightly larger stable tear, Canton River map neatly repaired, some foxing in places, including the plates and maps, contemporary quarter-calf gilt over green cloth boards by Hetherington of Uxbridge, signed, rubbed, joints split, marbled endpapers, 8vo, Bullen (Frank T., FRGS), The Way They Have In The Navy [...], first edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1899, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo, [&] Burgoyne (Alan H., editor), The Navy League Annual, First Year, 1907-8, [&] Second Year, 1908-9, two volumes, the first part inscribed by the editor, London, October, 1907 & 1908, original publisher's pictorial red cloth gilt, rounded corners, all edges gilt, 8vo, (4) 


Provenance: 1st: Richard Benyon Croft (1843-1912), of Fanhams Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire, sometime High Sheriff, Deputy Lieutenant and JP for the aforementioned county; his large armorial bookplate to recto pastedown.