Oct 27, 2020 - Sale 2549

Sale 2549 - Lot 192

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Herbert, Sir Thomas (1606-1682)
Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great.

London: by R. Everingham, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1677.

Folio, third edition, added engraved title, [pi]4, B-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Eee4, Fff-Iii2, Kkk1 (lacking final leaf, vertical half-title), illustrated with two full-page and one folding plate, numerous engraved text illustrations and maps throughout, contemporary boards, both detached, 12 1/4 x 8 in.

Wing H-1536; ESTC R771; http://estc.bl.uk/R771.

The lively illustrations in the volume include a shark attack, ethnographic images showing local costumes, cuneiforms, penguins and the dodo, as well as many maps.