[001844]  Author - ROTHERY, Lieutenant G. A. J.

 

 A Diary of the Wreck of His Majesty's Ship Challenger, on the Western Coast of South America, in May, 1835.

 

With an Account of the Subsequent Encampment of the Officers and Crew, During a Period of Seven Weeks, on the South Coast of Chili.

 

Published (London) in 1836.

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman.

First Edition.

8vo. Half-Leather. Book.

Very Good. (iv);

160 pages.  

folding map, plate,

folding lithograph plate.

Bookplate of Edward Joseph Dent.

Large folding panoramic lithographic frontispiece,

 

Contemporary half calf neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid. "The Challenger, commanded by Sir Michael Seymour, left Rio de Janeiro and entered the Pacific, headed for Concepion and Valparaiso, Chile.

However she was wrecked on the Chilean coast at Molquilla Beach ... all the men were landed safely and stranded on this desolate shore until assistance could be brought south from Concepcion." Sabin, 19961. Abbey, 726. Palau. Hill, 1493. £600.00