Lot 661
  • 661

Hutton, R.N.

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Five Years in the East. London: Longman and others, 1847
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120mm.), (vol.1) xii, 328pp.; (vol.2) vi, 326pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, original pictorial ribbed red cloth gilt, yellow endpapers, morocco-tipped slipcase

A rare work, including visits to India, Sri Lanka, Java, China, and Egypt. Some bibliographies (see below) and libraries have this as a pseudonymous work and attribute it to Charles Henry Newmarch.

Literature

Lowendahl 1067 (attributed to Newmarch, see note above); not in Hilmy or Lust

Condition

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