Lot 1085
  • 1085

Ross, James Clark--Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, 1839-1843. Under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross... Part III. Flora Tasmaniae. London: Lovell Reeve, 1860
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (315 x 240mm.), (vol.1) [4], [vii]-viii, cxxviii, 360pp.; (vol.2) [2], 422pp., 199 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one double-page, red straight-grained half morocco, blue marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt

Literature

Ferguson 3840; Nissen BBI 908; Rosove 172-3.A1; Spence 605; Staton & Tremaine 2654

Condition

A good copy
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