Lot 165
  • 165

Griffith, [Lucinda] Darby

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Journey across the Desert, from Ceylon to Marseilles: comprising sketches of Aden, the Red Sea, Lower Egypt, Malta, Sicily, and Italy. London: Henry Colburn, 1845
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (190 x 108mm.), lithographed frontispieces, illustrations, errata leaf at end of vol.2, contemporary half calf, lacking half-titles, rubbed

Provenance

Sion College Library, old library stamp on verso of titles and arms on upper covers

Literature

Blackmer 754; Hilmy I, p.277

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described n the catalogue description
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