Lot 334
Maritime.- Serres (John Thomas, translator) The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, first English edition, Published for the Author, 1801.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Maritime.- Serres (John Thomas, translator) The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, first English edition, list of subscribers, 137 hand-coloured aquatint land profiles by J. Stadler after J.T. Serres on 20 sheets, 24 hand-coloured engraved maps by John Luffman on 12 sheets, table of soundings and index at end, some staining and repairs, mostly to margins, occasionally onto platemark but barely affecting the images themselves, modern red half morocco over marbled boards, [Abbey, Life 344], folio, Published for the Author, 1801.
*** First and only edition of this attractive coasting pilot, translated by Serres from René Bougard's Le Petit flambeau de la mer (1810). Nelson is listed among the subsrcribers.
Description
Maritime.- Serres (John Thomas, translator) The Little Sea Torch: or, True Guide for Coasting Pilots, first English edition, list of subscribers, 137 hand-coloured aquatint land profiles by J. Stadler after J.T. Serres on 20 sheets, 24 hand-coloured engraved maps by John Luffman on 12 sheets, table of soundings and index at end, some staining and repairs, mostly to margins, occasionally onto platemark but barely affecting the images themselves, modern red half morocco over marbled boards, [Abbey, Life 344], folio, Published for the Author, 1801.
*** First and only edition of this attractive coasting pilot, translated by Serres from René Bougard's Le Petit flambeau de la mer (1810). Nelson is listed among the subsrcribers.