Sold for:
$750
$750
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. 8vo, publisher's blue diagonally-ribbed cloth with gilt lettering to foot of spine, yellow endpapers, half-title, errata (14-line), frontispiece and engraved vignette title page, housed in felt-lined drop-back clamshell case. First edition in book form with 27 (of 33) internal flaws per Smith. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title page. Foxing to plates; inner hinge cracked; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; manuscript ex-libris to half-title; wear to edges and extremities; intermittent foxing and darkening to edges of plates.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2014-11-05
