SEA DRIFT.
Portsea / London: T. Hinton and Co., 80, Queen Street / F. Pitman. 20, Paternoster Row; and All Booksellers. 1858. 1st Edition. 252 pp. P. 210 with large cancel pasted over ~ 80% of the text. "List of Subscribers" last 4 pages. Frontispiece lithograph of Robinson. Plate after p. 32, "Capture of Runner 'Romp' by H.M.S. 'Prometheus.'" Plate after p. 116, "Hydrographical Sketch of the Savage Island's". Plate after p. 214, "Position's of the Fleet's at the Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar." 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4. Later red quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Black spine labels in 2nd & 4th compartment. Renewed eps. Spine panel sunned. Bookplate of Joan Emlyn. Text-block margins with unobtrusive vertical pen lines, ephasizing a portion of the text. Subscriber list extensively annotated in a period hand [ink]. Withal, a solid VG - VG+ copy. Item #50814
Robinson "was a British colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong and subsequently, the 14th Governor of New South Wales, the first Governor of Fiji, and the 8th Governor of New Zealand. From June 1859 until August 1896, he was known as Sir Hercules Robinson."
Price: $450.00