4th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 159
 

159

[Ellis, George] Memoir of a Map of the Countries comprehended between the Black Sea and the...

[Ellis, George]
Memoir of a Map of the Countries comprehended between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an account of the Caucasian Nations and Vocabularies of their Languages. Printed for J. Edwards, 1788. 4to, reversed calf, upper board loose but still attached, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. 80; large folding map by S.J. Neele, hand-coloured in outline (tear to inner margin entering plate but not affecting image).
An uncommon work, generally attributed to George Ellis (based on a note with the BL copy). Ellis produced this cultural, historical, linguistic and topographical account after two years in Russia with the British Legation.
Lowndes (1834), p.659

Sold for £950
Estimated at £500 - £700


 

Binding worn, with leather scratched and rubbed, upper board loose but attached, a little foxing to pre- and post-lims, text pages generally clean, though a few with dusty marking to lower margin, map with tear to inner margin entering plate but not affecting text, some marking to upper margin, thin band of toning around edges, slight foxing to map, but a very good copy of an uncommon work.

 


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