May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BRENCHLEY, JULIUS LUCIUS. Jottings During the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa Among the South Sea Islands in 1865. Folding double-page chromolithographed frontispiece; 50 lithographed plates of ornithological and zoological subjects, all but 9 in color; one chromolithographed and 8 wood-engraved plates; folding lithographed map, partly hand-colored in outline. Half-title. Large 8vo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, horizontal crack across top of backstrip, hinges cracked and reinforced with paper tape; half-title browned, title offset, with owner's small stamp in lower margin, minor spotting on some text leaves. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873