Lot 9
  • 9

Barrow, John

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Travels into the interior of Southern Africa… the second edition, with additions and alterations. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806
  • paper
2 volumes, 4to (270 x 208mm.), dedication leaf, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 9 folding engraved maps, some hand-coloured, 2pp. advertisements at end of volume 2, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, 2F2 in volume 1 with marginal restoration, without half-title in volume 2, one map repaired and with pencil notes, occasional browning, recornered and rebacked retaining original spines 

Literature

Abbey, Travel 322

Condition

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