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SMYTH, Admiral William Henry (1788-1865). The Hydrography of Sicily, Malta, and the adjacent islands; surveyed in 1814, 1815, and 1816. London: Admiralty Hydrographical Office, 1823. 2° (860 x 560mm). Letterpress title and contents leaf, 32 engraved charts and views, including one double-page plate, engraved by J. Walker, all mounted on guards. (Light surface soiling to plates 1 and 8 mainly confined to margins, faint marginal stain to top corner affecting last 12 plates.) Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind and gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (worn, covers crazed and detached, spine highly defective).
FRESH COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SMYTH'S IMPORTANT SURVEYS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. An Admiral and scientific writer, William Henry Smyth was one of the most influential of Admiralty surveyors of the period. From 1813 he served as Lieutenant with the Sicilian flotilla against the French in Naples, combining naval duties with his own surveying and antiquarian research. In September 1815 he was made Commander and continued carrying out his surveys along the coasts of Sicily, Italy and the opposite shores of Africa. From 1817 his role as surveyor became official and he produced a great number of important sea charts. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Astronomical Society, Smyth later went on to become one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. Brunet V, 419; NMM 3, 435.
FRESH COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SMYTH'S IMPORTANT SURVEYS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. An Admiral and scientific writer, William Henry Smyth was one of the most influential of Admiralty surveyors of the period. From 1813 he served as Lieutenant with the Sicilian flotilla against the French in Naples, combining naval duties with his own surveying and antiquarian research. In September 1815 he was made Commander and continued carrying out his surveys along the coasts of Sicily, Italy and the opposite shores of Africa. From 1817 his role as surveyor became official and he produced a great number of important sea charts. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Astronomical Society, Smyth later went on to become one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society. Brunet V, 419; NMM 3, 435.