OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.

Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta.

London, Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 vols, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), pp. xxiii, 434; viii, 420, with five plates (slightly foxed) and four folding maps (three with repaired tears); five illustrations in the text; contemporary half calf; spines rubbed, one joint neatly repaired; the Hosken copy, with bookplates. First edition. ‘The journals of Captain Owen and his officers were edited and prepared for press by Mr Heaton Bowstead Robinson, and contain a large amount of varied information respecting many portions of Africa in the first quarter of the nineteenth century . . . ’ (Mendelssohn). It is ‘by his accurate surveys of coasts, till then only explored, that Owen is best known. The charts of the west and east coasts of Africa, of Madagascar, Mauritius, and of Asia, from Aden to Cape Comorin, drawn under his superintendence, . . . form the basis of those still in use’ (DNB).Hosken p. 153; Mendelssohn II p. 133.

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