Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 214

Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
(PACIFIC EXPLORATION.) John Webber. Views in the South Seas, from Drawings by the Late James Webber, Draftsman on Board the Resolution, Captain James Cooke, from the Year 1776 to 1780. Without title-page, 16 hand-colored aquatint plates each with a letterpress leaf of descriptive text. Folio, 22x17 inches; disbound; wove paper with watermarks of "JWhatman" or "CWilmott" 1814-1820, wide uncut deckle-edge margins; original hand-color preserved fresh; one small closed tear in the margin, minor foxing and surface soiling. London: Boydell & Co., 1808 [but after]