MOSELEY, H.N. Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger," being an account of various observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" round the world, in the years 1872-1876. London, Macmillan and Co., 1879.
8vo. Original brown cloth boards decorated in black, gilt lettering to spine; pp.xvi, 620, lithographic frontispiece in three colours with tissue guard, lithographic plate, lithographic folding map, wood-engravings in the text, fron inner hinge strengthened, occasional spotting to text, still an attractive copy. Provenance: contemporary bookplate E. B. Kemp Welch of Bournemouth inside front cover.
First edition, dedicated in print to Charles Darwin. Moseley was one of three assistants to C. Wyville Thompson, chief of the scientific staff aboard the Challenger. His account of the trip provides a very readable and non-technical desciption of the places visited. The ship visited Tristan da Cunha, Marion Islands, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, Heard Island, Juan Fernandez, Magellan Strait and the Falkland Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Cape York and Queensland. The two colour illustrations are from the author's sketches of icebergs and pack ice in the Antarctic (the ship was the first steamship to cross the Antarctic circle).
NMMC I.182; Conrad p.69; Headland 1039; Spence 820.
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