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To India and back by the Cape
Title
To India and back by the Cape / by a traveller ; with numerous drawings on wood and stone, by John Corbet Anderson.
Published
Croydon : Published by John C. Anderson, 1859.
Physical Description
[4], 28 p., 18, [i.e. 19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped green cloth. Armorial Bookplate: R.H. Shaw. Lacks list of subscribers.
Notes
By C.R. Francis.
Includes wood-engraved illustrations, and a map, within the text; two of these are signed: W. Earl.
Printed by W. H. Crockford, Blackheath Road, Greenwich.
"Subscriber's copy."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Lithographs: 1. Madeira
2. Teneriffe
3. Crossing the line
4. Off Martin Vas, and Trinidad
5. Trastan da Cunha
5a. Off the Cape, in 40° south, sighting an iceberg
6. The Mauritius
7. Ceylon
8. Madras
9. At the sand-heads
10. Calcutta
11. Bombay
12. After a hurricane, off the Mauritius
13. Off the Cape
14. Table Bay
15. St. Helena
16. Ascension
17. Home
18. (Thirteen figures of sea creatures).
References
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 524
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Travel literature.
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Wood engravings - 1859.
Lithographs - 1859.
Lithographs - Hand-colored - 1859.
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