Lot 364
  • 364

Dalzel, Archibald

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dalzel, Archibald
  • The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa. London: for the Author, 1793
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (282 x 204mm.), xxxii, xxvi, [iv], 230pp., engraved folding map, 6 plates, list of subscribers and errata (pp.xxvii-xxxii), nineteenth-century pale half calf, red label, blue marbled boards, some plates slightly cropped at edge with loss of plate number

Provenance

George William Mercer Henderson, of Fordell, armorial bookplate

Condition


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