BRASSEY, Mrs. Anna "Annie". In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties. (FIRST EDITION - 1879)

AUTHOR: BRASSEY, Mrs. Anna "Annie"

TITLE: In The Trades, The Tropics, & The Roaring Forties.

PUBLISHER: London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1879.

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-5/8" x 5-7/8", title-page printed in red and black, with 292 illustrations, 2 folding maps. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Worsfold.

CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The couple had five children together before they traveled aboard their luxury yacht Sunbeam. The yacht was said to have been named after their daughter - Constance Alberta - who was nicknamed Sunbeam; she died of scarlet fever aged four, on 24 January 1873. The golden figurehead of the yacht depicting her is at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK.
A Voyage in the Sunbeam, describes their journey round the world in 1876-77 with a complement of 43, including family, friends and crew, ran through many English editions and was translated into at least five other languages.