The Cruise of the Beacon: A Narrative of a Visit to the Islands in Bass’s Straits

Francis R. Nixon

London

:

Bell & Daldy

,

1857

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First Edition.

20cm x 14cm. [iv], 114, [2] pages, [24] advertisements, salted paper photograph, frontispiece, vignette title, and 8 plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, blind rule.

Account of a journey by the first Bishop of Tasmania, Francis Russell Nixon (1803-1879) to the islands north of Tasmania in the Bass Strait. This copy with a salted paper photograph portrait of Nixon mounted to the front free endpaper. FERGUSON 13424.

Minor handling wear. French bookseller ink stamp and catalogue listing mounted to front pastedown, also with a plate removal mark. Small soil to mounted photograph and rear endpaper. Very Good Condition.