... Twenty four views taken in St Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia & Egypt

by Henry Salt

$40,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, later issue. Hand-colored aquatint dedication/title, and 24 hand colored aquatint plates by D. Havell, J. Hill and J. Bluck, supervised by Robert Havell, after Henry Salt, on thick Whatman paper watermarked 1822. Interleaved throughout with blanks. Without the separately-issued octavo text, as usual. Elephant folio. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, large morocco label on the upper cover, spine gilt. Foxing to a few plates.

• Binding: Leather

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