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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Swire (Herbert)

THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER (Golden Cockerel Press)

A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876

Published: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938

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Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in his journals 

Foreword by Major Roger Swire, M.C., R.E. 

Introduction by G. Herbert Fowler, C.B.E.

2 volumes: I. 192pages. II. 169 pages, colour frontispiece in each volume and 8 colour plates, full page and other sketches in the text, map on front endpapers of volume I, white cloth spines with gilt decoration and titling, blue cloth sides, fore-edges uncut, contained in a blue cloth slip case. The top corners of both volumes are bumped and the slip case worn with the corners bumped. Contents fine. 

The colophon reads: 

THE VOYAGE OF THE CHALLENGER has been printed and illustrated with reproductions from the original manuscript Journals in the possession of the author’s widow, by Christopher and Anthony Stanford and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press, Rolls Passage, London, and completed on the 31st Day of May, 1938. The Edition is limited to 300 sets of the 2 volumes printed in Eric Gill’s Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper. 

No. 295 

Pages 97 to 120 in volume I include an account for Swire’s stay at the Cape from 19th November to 21st December 1873 including journeys to Wellington and Tulbagh.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: Small folio (320 x 200 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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