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Browne (J. Ross . Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, with Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar; and a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, in its Past and Present Condition, 1st UK edition, John Murray 1846, 13 engraved plates including frontispiece, 12 pp. advertisements to rear, spotting, occasional finger-soiling, presentation ink-stamp 'With Mr Murray's Compts' to title-page, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, modern half morocco, 8vo (23.2 x 14.3 cm), together with: Albert Victor (Duke of Clarence and Avondale, & George V, King of the United Kingdom), The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1886, folding colour map frontispiece (spotted and offset), 16 wood-engraved plates, contemporary blue half morocco, 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), Campbell (George), Log Letters from "The Challenger", 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1876, folding colour map frontispiece (spotted and offset), contemporary ownership inscription 'F. J. Blandy, Fremantle Lodge' to title-page and front free endpaper, contemporary blue half calf by Knill of Reading, spine relaid, 8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), and Choules (John Overton), The Cruise of the Steam Yacht North Star; a Narrative of the Excursion of Mr. Vanderbilt's Party to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc., 1st edition, Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854, engraved portrait frontispiece, 20 pp. advertisements to rear, moderate spotting and browning, original green pictorial cloth gilt, head of spine repaired, 8vo (Qty: 5) Ferguson 4244 (Browne: 'A detailed and realistic account'); Sabin 8658 (Browne, first edition, New York, 1846). Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.