£1,764
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
London: R. H. Porter, 1885-1897. First edition, 7 volumes, large 8vo (25 x 16 cm), original green half morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure portrait frontispiece, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 421 chromolithographic plates after Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn, all plates and text-leaves mounted on linen stubs as issued, bookplates (C. W. Higgs), spines sunned, variable spotting, chiefly to margins [Freeman 2244; Mullens & Swann pp. 354-5; Nissen IVB 563]