Lot 96
  • 96

Beaver, Philip

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Beaver, Philip
  • African Memoranda: relative to an Attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1805
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (262 x 207mm.), [iv], xvi, 500, [ii]pp., large folding engraved map, 2 engraved plates, contemporary dark olive straight-grained morocco, covers panelled in gilt, wide gilt turn-ins with matching inner joints, yellow endpapers, gilt edges, plates and adjacent text leaves slightly spotted and offset

Provenance

John Temple, armorial bookplate

Condition

A very fine copy
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