Lot 896
  • 896

Moresby, John

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • New Guinea & Polynesia. Discoveries & Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. A Cruise in Polynesia and Visits to the Pearl-shelling stations in the Torres Straits. London: John Murray, 1876
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (224 x 134mm.), xviii, [ii], 328pp., half-title, 4 maps [1 folding], 4 plates, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, black endpapers, bevelled edges, slipcase

Literature

Ferguson 12801

Condition

A very good copy
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