Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 308

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HARRIS, JOHN. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca; or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels . . . Now Carefully Revised, with Large Additions, and continued down to the Present Time. 39 engraved plates; 22 maps by emanuel bowen, including the Americas, the North Pole, and Australasia. [12], xvi, [4], 984; [10], 1056, [22] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, 397x247 mm, 19th-century 1/4 mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped; mostly moderate foxing, light offsetting from engraved matter, scattered minor dampstains, vertical crease in title, outer segment of second map detached, and clean tear crudely repaired on 6H1 in Volume 1, North Pole map cropped in outer and lower margins with slight text loss at bottom and clean tear in 11D2 and 11L2 in Volume 2. London: T. Woodward et al., 1744-48

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Second edition of a compilation of all then known voyages, originally published in 1705. Hill 775.