Sketches on a Yachting Cruise
PARRY, Major Gambier
With Illustrations by the Author.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Published: W H Allen, 1889
Stock code: 49682
Price: £56.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates; blue pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
Crisp copy of a classic period account. Parry sailed extensively throughout the eastern Mediterranean, taking in Algeria, Sicily, Corfu, Albania, Ithaca, Zante, Olympia, Navarino, Hydra, Corinth, Sunium, Marathon, Eurora, Mt. Athos, Vatopedi, Gallipoli, Scutari and Sevastopol.