Lot 483
  • 483

Forbes, Frederick Edwyn

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Forbes, Frederick Edwyn
  • Six Months' Service in the African Blockade, from April to October, 1848, in command of H.M.S. Bonetta. London: Richard Bentley, 1849
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (195 x 115mm.), x, 146pp., folding map (depicting  the countries between Sierra Leone and Liberia), pale half calf, marbled boards and endpapers, full gilt spine, flat raised bands, red leather label, map strengthened at folds

Condition

A good copy
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