Lady Brassey - Le Tour du Monde en Famille - 1887

Round the World with the Brasseys by Lady Brassey - The Brassey family’s voyage aboard their yacht the Sunbeam told by the mother - Translated from English by Mr. Richard Viot - Illustrated with 78 wood engravings - Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, Editors 1887 - Publisher’s binding signed by A. Souze, in full red cloth, titled and adorned on the upper board with a vast gold composition, spine titled and adorned, rear board decorated at the center with a medallion in the middle of which the editor’s name appears, all framed by wide black rules along the edge, all edges gilded, 400 pages, 4to format (30 x 21 cm) - Table of contents: see photos - Condition: the spine of the binding is worn and the hinges are weakened, but the interior is still very fresh and the gatherings are solidly bound - Lady Anne Brassey, her husband Thomas Brassey (a wealthy shipowner and British politician) and their four children, as well as friends, sailors and scientists, traveled for 46 weeks, crossing the oceans from west to east: Madeira, Brazil, the Argentine pampas, the Strait of Magellan, Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China, Ceylon and the Suez Canal, aboard their own steam yacht, the “Sunbeam” -