27th Nov, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
69
Stephens (John L.).
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841, two octavo volumes, map, plates and illustrations as called for, marbled endpapers, scattered spotting, small tear to folding map, bookplates on pastedown and front free endpaper of vol. 1, small bookplate to pastedown of vol. 2, ink inscription to flyleaf of vol. 1, later half morocco gilt, mottled boards, extremities rubbed;
idem, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843, two octavo volumes, plates and illustrations as called for, folding map, age toning/foxing, bookplates of Warren Irvin, ink inscription to flyleaf of vol. 1, later half morocco gilt, very light rubbing, mark to upper board of vol. 2.
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 27th Nov, 2024
Highlights include a first edition of an important work on the English colonies in America and the West Indies published in 1687, a collection of watercolours depicting landscapes and ancient sites of Egypt and the Middle East, and a selection of mid-19th century albumen print photographs of Rome. Further notable lots include plates from a mid-18th century plan of Paris by Michael Etienne Turgot, a Victorian autograph album and a copy of Eugene Grasset's 'Plants and the Application to Ornament'.
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