Lot 625
  • 625

Hickson, Sydney J.

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • A Naturalist in North Celebes. A narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with notices of the fauna, flora, and ethnology. London: John Murray, 1889
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo (220 x 140mm.), xvi, 392pp., 28pp. adverts, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, 2 folding coloured maps, 6 plates, original decorated black cloth, slipcase

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Mr & Mrs George Behrens from Sydney J. Hickson February 19th 1896".

Condition

A very good copy
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