Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ENGELMANN, GODEFROY; and BERGER, G. Porte-Feuille Géographique et Ethnographique. Lithographed frontispiece and 54 lithographed plates, almost all hand-colored, plate 2 with lithographed outline overlay; 34 maps, most hand-colored in outline. 4 folding letterpress tables. [2], 204; [2], 146, [20] pages, including lithographed titles. 2 parts in one volume, with plates bound separately. Together, 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/2 mottled sheep gilt with leather lettering pieces; frontispiece and lithographed general title toned, scattered marginal foxing on plates. Bookplates of the pioneer otologist Adam Politzer (1835-1920). Mulhouse & Paris: chez G. Engelmann, 1820

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first edition in book form of a compendium of world geography and ethnography. Subjects of the plates include views of Greenland and Niagara Falls, inhabitants of Alaska and Quito, and the death of Captain Cook. Gumuchian 2413 (issue in parts).