Lot 323
Pinkerton, John
Auction: 13 January 2010 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A general collection of…. voyages and travels…. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808-1814. 4to, 17 volumes, 187 engraved plates and maps, [complete, as per plate lists in each volume; several plates on the same sheet], list of plates in each volume, full contemporary diced calf, Northern Lighthouse Board gilt stamp at head of backstrips, marble endpapers, some cracking to hinges and scuffing to heads of some backstrips, foxing to most plates and leaves adjacent, offsetting from a majority of plates
Footnote
Note: Complete with all plates and maps called for in the plate lists of the individual volumes. However the "General list of plates" in volume 1 calls, curiously, for 201 engraved plates and maps. Hill p.236; Ferguson 473; Sabin 62957