3. [English History Collection] – Anonymous [Frederick Corbin Lukis] [Naturalist / Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].
Rambles among the Channel Islands. By a Naturalist.
[First Edition]. London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [c. 1855]. 18 cm. Frontispiece – engraving of the Rocks at Moulin Huet (Guernsey), VIII, 386 pages with many illustrations (wood engravings) of Harbour at St.Peter Port, Guernsey / St.Sampson’s Harbour / St.Helier Harbour, Jersey / Rocks at Greve de Lecq, Jersey, St.Brelade’s Bay etc. etc. Hardcover / Original decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed wiith a private giftinscription on endpaper: “To my Darling Agnes on her Birthday from her loving Father [?], 5th August 1869”.