Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History
Auction Closed
November 12, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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BLAKENEY, WILLIAM
On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years ago. A Record of Surveying Service on the China, Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seaboard of Korea and Manchuria. London: Elliot Stock, 1902
FIRST EDITION, 8vo 223 x 137mm.), half-title, 19 maps (18 folding), 72 plates (1 coloured) which are included in the pagination, original pictorial yellow cloth, black endpapers, blue slipcase
PROVENANCE:
A. Hennings and Douglas H. Hennings, signatures on half-title; The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, sale in these rooms, 27 March 2014, lot 136