The Asiatic Islands And New Holland Being A Description Of The Manners Customs Character And State

by Frederic Shobrel

$850 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: R. Ackermann, n.d., 1824 . First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 12mo, pp. 2 , vii, 3 , 291; 2 , 289; 26 hand-colored plates; front hinge cracked at contents-page; slightly later half green calf over marbled boards, label missing on spine, otherwise very good. Many of the plates are after the drawings of Louis Choris. Issued as part of The World in Miniature series, published in 43 volumes 1821-27, and available separately from the publisher. Volume I is

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