Lot 520
Travel - Hall, Captain Basil
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Extracts from a journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822. Edinburgh, 1826, 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved titles, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, some foxing to titles; Prescott, William History of the conquest of Peru. London, 1857, 8vo, 2 volumes, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed at backstrips, foxing and offsetting to title; Ross, Sir John Narrative of a second voyage in search of a northwest passage. London, [no date], 8vo, portrait frontispiece, prize binding and bookplate, calf gilt, rubbed, offsetting to title; Moore, John A view of society and manners in Italy. London, 1787, fourth edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed, hinges cracking, bookplates; and another 2 volumes (9)