Lot 306
  • 306

Wafer, Lionel

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

  • A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. London: James Knapton, 1699
  • paper, ink, leather
8vo (185 x 110 mm). Folding map and 3 folding plates; some worming in blank lower margin or index. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked with spine preserved.

Provenance

"Eliza Gregor Her Book 1699" on pastedown

Literature

Alden & Landis 699/223; Cox II, p.247; Field 1617; Hill 1796; Sabin 100940; Wing W193

Catalogue Note

first edition. "... one of the best accounts of the Isthmus of Panama..." (Hill).