Bays peter (43 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. New copy (purchased from the publisher's warehouse when they closed down.) Original title: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning amond the South Sea Islanders; Giving an Account of Their Feasts, Massacres, &c. &c., With the Certificates of Wesleyan Missionaries Who Lived in the Islands; Second Edi…

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 238pp, index, footnotes, few bw ills. Or card covers. A couple of tiny spots on covers, rear cover creased at one corner. Two narratives of the wreck of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage in 1829. Much detail on the customs and life in Fiji. The original editions are bo…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Narrative Of The Wreck Of The Minerva is a historical book written by Peter Bays in 1831. The book is a detailed account of the tragic sinking of the Minerva, a whaling ship from Port Jackson, New South Wales, on Nicholson's Shoal in the South Pacific. The author, who was a crew member on t…

Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrate…

Leatherbound. Zustand: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 206. A perfect gift f…

First Edion. First Edion. W/O FRONTIS. viii, 181, [1]pp. 12mo. "The Minerva was on a voyage to Tonga and the Solomons and was lost on the Nicholson Shoal, now known as Minerva Reef, to the south of Tonga, on September 9, 1829, owing to the use of an out-of-date chart. The author gives many interesting particulars of his stay in…

Leather Bound. Zustand: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine len…

Leather Bound. Zustand: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine len…

Ms. in ink. Bifolium with intgral blank & address. Cambridge, Naval Academy, November 1st, Peter Bays is best known for his 1831 work, A Narrative of the Wreck of the Minerva. He was part of the crew when the Minerva was wrecked in 1829 en route to the Solomon Islands from Port Jackson. Here, a decade later, the Pacific islands…