Lot 342
Pacific.- Erskine (John Elphinstone) Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, first edition, 1853.
Hammer Price: £100
Description
Pacific.- Erskine (John Elphinstone) Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, first edition, folding engraved map, 4 chromolithographed and 3 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, without errata slip and publisher's advertisements, bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton, folding map with a few short tears but no loss, occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine sunned and lightly soiled, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, [Hill 568; Abbey, Travel 602], 8vo, 1853.
Description
Pacific.- Erskine (John Elphinstone) Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, first edition, folding engraved map, 4 chromolithographed and 3 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, without errata slip and publisher's advertisements, bookplate of G. & N. Ingleton, folding map with a few short tears but no loss, occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine sunned and lightly soiled, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, [Hill 568; Abbey, Travel 602], 8vo, 1853.