Books and Manuscripts: A Spring Miscellany
Books and Manuscripts: A Spring Miscellany
Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
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May 27, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
BARROW, JOHN
Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa… The Second Edition, with Additions and Alterations. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806
2 volumes, 4to (10 1/2 x 8 in.; 267 x 203mm). Dedication leaf, 8 hand-colored aquatint plates by T. Medland after Samuel Daniell, 9 folding engraved maps by S.J. Neele, 3 hand-colored in outline; offsetting, some foxing. Full brown calf, covers with multiple gilt rules, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; rebacked to style, edges rubbed, corners bumped.
The "second and best edition" (Tooley).
REFERENCE:
Abbey, Travel 322; Tooley 85
PROVENANCE:
John Louis Kuser (bookplates to pastedowns)