Item #77175 Journal of Commodore Goodenough RN CB CMG during his Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-1875. Edited, with a Memoir, by his Widow [V.H. Goodenough]. James Graham GOODENOUGH.
Journal of Commodore Goodenough RN CB CMG during his Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-1875. Edited, with a Memoir, by his Widow [V.H. Goodenough]
Journal of Commodore Goodenough RN CB CMG during his Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-1875. Edited, with a Memoir, by his Widow [V.H. Goodenough]

Journal of Commodore Goodenough RN CB CMG during his Last Command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-1875. Edited, with a Memoir, by his Widow [V.H. Goodenough]

London, Henry S. King, 1876 [second edition]/ 1876.

Octavo, xii, 369, [3, two of them blank], 48 (publisher's catalogue, dated March 1876) pages with 22 small illustrations plus a frontispiece portrait and 3 folding maps (2 of them in an endpocket).

Gilt-decorated cloth; bottom front corner a little bumped, exposing a tiny piece of the board; original tissue-guard over the frontispiece foxed and a little silverfish-nibbled; short tear to the endpocket expertly repaired; an excellent copy.

James Graham Goodenough (1830-75), naval officer, was appointed commodore of the Australian station in May 1873. 'His duties included the maintenance of law and order among British subjects in the Pacific and control of their relations with indigenous peoples. On 12 August 1875 while trying to conciliate natives on Carlisle Bay in the Santa Cruz Islands he and others of his party were wounded by poisoned arrows'. Tetanus set in and he died on 20 August (Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4).

Item #77175

Price (AUD): $500.00

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