Lot 971
  • 971

O'Neill, Thomas

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Sketches of African Scenery, from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza, being a Series of Coloured Lithographic Pictures. London: Church Missionary House, 1878
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (281 x 216mm.), 16pp., 19 chromolithographed plates on 9 leaves, large route map in the text, contemporary dark red cross-grained morocco by W. Mansell, gilt titled and decorated covers, watered silk cream endpapers, gilt turn-ins with matching inner joints, gilt edges

Literature

Hilmy II, p. 80

Catalogue Note

This work contains the first coloured illustrations of the region.