Lot 832
  • 832

McLeod, Lyons

Estimate
350 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Travels in Eastern Africa; with the Narrative of a Residence in Mozambique. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 120mm.), (vol.1) viii, 342pp.; (vol.2) vi, 348pp., [ii pp. adverts], folding map, 2 plates [including one coloured lithograph], original blindstamped brown cloth, slipcase, short tear in map repaired

Provenance

Gordon of Ellon, armorial bookplate

Literature

Mendelssohn (1979) III, p.220

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

Rare at auction.