Jottings during the cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among the South Sea islands in 1865.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873.
Octavo, 487 pp. 50 lithographed plates, folding coloured map. Publisher's green gilt pictorial cloth, some slight wear, a few spots otherwsie a very good copy.
The plates are as follows; 21 handcoloured plates on birds by Smit; 4 uncoloured lithographs of reptiles; 10 lithographs (including 5 handcoloured) of fish; 7 chromolithographs of shells; 8 chromolithographs of insects.
The Curacoa visited Norfolk Island, Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, The Solomons and New Caledonia. Brenchley's voyage is an important early accounts of the South Pacific Islands.
Ferguson 7376.




