Log of the Centurion. Based on the original papers of Captain Philip Saumarez on board HMS Centurion, Lord Anson's flagship during his circumnavigation 1740-44

Heaps, Leo

ISBN 10: 024610581X / ISBN 13: 9780246105813

Edité par Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1973

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First edition, first impression. Edge wear and some chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine. corners and folds scuffed, spine lightly browned, some slight dust soiling, jacket now in protective film wrapper. Not price clipped (£3.75), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall in vg ++ condition. 264pp. Maps of Anson's voyage on endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Saumarez, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. The object of Anson's epic voyage was to capture the Spanish Acapulco galleon and harrass the Spaniards to the best of their power. The treasure captured during the four year voyage amounted to some fifty million in today's money and was sufficient to set all the participants up for life and compensate them for the hardships endured, except ironically Phillip Saumarez (1710-47) himself, who was killed in an engagement off Cape Finisterre. The manuscript of Saumarez's diary was lost for many years and only discovered in a cardboard box in his family's manor on Guernsey in the Channel Isles in the1960's. Indispensable to all Patrick O'Brian fans.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Log of the Centurion. Based on the original papers of Captain Philip Saumarez on board HMS Centurion, Lord Anson's flagship during his circumnavigation 1740-44
• Éditeur: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 024610581X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780246105813
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages. DJ is toned with little edge wear and price clipped.