Sketches in the Pacific. The South Sea Islands

by Conway Shipley

$55,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

London: Published by T. Mclean, 1851. Folio, full blue Turkey morocco, elaborate gilt title emblem with inlaid red morocco on both covers, two sets of gilt rules and two sets of blind-stamped rules on both covers, re-backed with original spine laid down, a.e.g. Hand-colored lithographic title leaf, 4 , 35, 1 pp., 25 hand-colored lithographic plates. Circular bookplate reading “Elphinstone Carberry Tower” on front paste-down, ownership inscription

• Binding: Leather

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