MITFORD, EDWARD LEDWICH | A Land March from England to Ceylon Forty Years Ago. London: W.H. Allen, 1884

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

MITFORD, EDWARD LEDWICH

A Land March from England to Ceylon Forty Years Ago. London: W.H. Allen, 1884

2 volumes, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.; 222 x 137 mm). 3 folding maps, 20 plates, including 1 mounted photograph portrait. Original blue cloth, gilt, slipcase; lower cover of Vol. II slightly marked.

First edition, Brooke-Hitching copy.

REFERENCE:

Wilson 147; not in Ghani

PROVENANCE:

Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his sale, Sotheby's London, 19 March 2015, lot 889)