Lot 03117

8vo, pp.448. Complete. 9 full page tissue-guarded plates, 2 fold out maps of the Mediterranean & Cyprus and more than 100 woodcuts in text engraved by G. Pearson after Bingham. Original pictorial covers inn brown-red-gilt. Dedicated by the author “To the Brave True-Hearted Sailors of England…”. Cracked spine, boards worn along edges & joints, text & plates clean and fine. Annie Brassey and her husband travelled the world for many years in their private yacht “Sunbeam”. “Sunbeam” is depicted on the foreground of the Illustrated cover’s design. The account “covers a cruise to Constantinople, via the Ionian Islands, Greece and the Archipelago and return to England, in 1874; and to Cyprus via Spain and Italy, Constantinople, Adrianople, the Archipelago, Malta, and return, in 1878” (Weber). Weber I 807.