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First edition of Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Thomas Boteler, a scarce account of the voyage by Owen to Southern Arabia and East Africa.
First edition of Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Thomas Boteler, a scarce account of the voyage by Owen to Southern Arabia and East Africa.
First edition of Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Thomas Boteler, a scarce account of the voyage by Owen to Southern Arabia and East Africa.
First edition of Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Thomas Boteler, a scarce account of the voyage by Owen to Southern Arabia and East Africa.

BOTELER, Thomas.

Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed in His Majesty's ships Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826. Under the command of Capt. F.W. Owen.

London, Bentley, 1835.

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Boteler served as second lieutenant under Owen during the latter's important surveying expedition to Southern Arabia and East Africa. He wrote this account which he lent to Owen for his official account and it might have remained unpublished were it not for his family's desire to see it through the press after he died of fever. This proved to be something of a poisoned chalice for the Botelers; after Thomas' death his youngest brother took up the editing duties only to succumb to a fatal illness himself; next his eldest brother stepped into the breech, but whilst sailing from Halifax his boat was lost and his body was never recovered. Finally it fell to yet another brother to complete the editing which fortunately he managed to do without losing his life.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); 4 lithograph plates, occasional light spotting, discreet bookplates to front pastedowns; contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, a fine copy; xxiv, 414; viii, 479 pp.

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First edition of Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Thomas Boteler, a scarce account of the voyage by Owen to Southern Arabia and East Africa.

Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia,

$3,078.00
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