Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
PINKERTON, JOHN. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World. 201 engraved plates and maps on 197 leaves. 17 volumes. 4to, contemporary sheep gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrips, heavily worn, covers detached; plates variously foxed, offsetting onto facing pages. London, 1808-14

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first edition. "This collection is of great value for its texts, which are sometimes given entire and sometimes abridged, with as much use as possible of the traveler''s own language. Volume 17 contains a retrospect of the origin and progress of discovery by sea and land, an extensive catalogue of books of voyages and travels, and a general index"--Hill 1361.