Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 342

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(WEST INDIES.) Edwards, Bryan. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 3 maps on 4 sheets, including the two-sheet "New Map of the West Indies"; 6 folding tables, 4 plates; both large folding maps have short tears and tape reinforcement on verso. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked in morocco; lacking half-titles, generally nice internally; bookplates of G.H.D. Pennant on front pastedowns. London, 1793 and 1801

Additional Details

first edition. The first two volumes are illustrated, as sometimes seen, with only the two-sheet map and the folding tables, rather than the full complement of 16. Includes the scarcer Saint Domingo volume, issued posthumously eight years later as Volume III. Cundall 2095; Sabin 21901.