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Bermuda.
A Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison; or, eighteen months in the Somers' Islands. (With map and illustrations). By a Field Officer.
London,
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts,
1857
Octavo, folding lithographed frontispiece map with contemporary hand-colour in outline, 8 tinted lithographed plates with tissue guards, publishers' adverts dated November 1856; original publisher's plum cloth, worn and stained.
Collation: A(6), B-T(8), B(12); x, [2], 287, [1], 24pp
Collation: A(6), B-T(8), B(12); x, [2], 287, [1], 24pp
220 by 140mm. (8.75 by 5.5 inches).
16333
notes:
First edition, of a wry account of a sojourn in Bermuda: "It is said that the Bermudas consist of 365 islands, but thus to eke out an island for every day of the year it is probably necessary to include not only all the visible, but a good many of the submarine rocks" (pages 8-9).
The attractive plates are 'St. George's Town,…', 'West end of Hamilton wharf', 'A View from Gibbs' Hill', 'Government House – Mount Langton', 'Grassy Bay, H.M.S. 'Nile'…', ' Summer Sle...
The attractive plates are 'St. George's Town,…', 'West end of Hamilton wharf', 'A View from Gibbs' Hill', 'Government House – Mount Langton', 'Grassy Bay, H.M.S. 'Nile'…', ' Summer Sle...
bibliography:
Hallett, 'Bermuda', page 78; Sabin 4907.
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