Lot 688
  • 688

Johnson, James

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Johnson, James
  • The Oriental Voyager; or, Descriptive Sketches and Cursory Remarks, on a Voyage to India and China, in his Majesty's Ship Caroline. London: Printed by Joyce Gold for James Asperne, 1807
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FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 122mm.), xvi, 388, xii pp., folding printed table, folding engraved map, contemporary tree calf, flat spine, red label, covers bordered in gilt, map bound upside-down and divided along centrefold

Literature

Lust 375; Mendelssohn (1979) II, p.693

Condition

A very good copy
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