Lot 1026
  • 1026

Pickering, William Alexander

Estimate
250 - 350 GBP
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Description

  • Pioneering in Formosa. Recollections of Adventures among Mandarins, Wreckers, & Head-Hunting Savages. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1898
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (223 x 137mm.), xvi, 284pp., [iv] pp. adverts, map, 24 plates [21 photographic], with 4pp. additional adverts for "Little Kayas" cigars folded and tipped in at end, original pictorial red cloth gilt, slipcase

Condition

A fine copy
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