Jul 09, 2020 - Sale 2540

Sale 2540 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
AINSWORTH, William Francis, ed. The Earth Delineated with Pen and Pencil; or, Voyages, Travels, and Adventures All Round the World. Engraved frontispiece after William Bartlett, xii, 820 pages, profusely illustrated with full-page and in-text wood engravings throughout. 4to, 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches, publisher's richly gilt red cloth, skillfully rebacked with the original spine laid on, new endpapers; internally fine. London: Charles Griffin & Co., circa 1870

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together with: Ainsworth, William Francis, ed. Wanderings in Every Clime; or, Voyages, Travels and Adventures All Round the World. Uniform with and a Sequel to "The Earth Delineated with Pen and Pencil." Engraved frontispiece after William Bartlett, xii, 810 pages, profusely illustrated with full-page and in-text wood engravings throughout. 4to, 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches, publisher's richly gilt-and-black-stamped red cloth, skillfully rebacked with the original spine laid on, new endpapers; internally fine. London: Charles Griffin & Co., circa 1870.

Together a fine duo of 19th-century "armchair traveler" books.