Adams | Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria, 1870

ADAMS, ARTHUR

Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 136mm.), half-title, portrait frontispiece, 16pp. advertisements at end, original green cloth, red endpapers, spotting to edges of text block

Arthur Adams (1820-1878) was assistant surgeon on board HMS Samarang during the survey of the Malay Archipelago in 1843-1846.

PROVENANCE:

David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, armorial bookplate; The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, sale in these rooms, 27 March 2014, lot 5