Lot 992
  • 992

Parks, Fanny

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description

  • Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana. London: Pelham Richardson, 1850
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, large 8vo (287 x 185mm.), (vol.1) xxxvi, 480pp.; (vol.2) xiv, [ii], 524pp., 50 plates [19 hand-coloured or printed in colour], folding panorama in the rear pocket of vol.1, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Provenance

Louisa Antrim, ownership inscription dated 1850

Literature

Abbey, Travel 476; Mendelssohn (1979) III, p.630 and 631

Catalogue Note

Volume 2 contains chapters on Cape Town and South Africa.