Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WITH THE MAP BOISGELIN DE KERDU, PIERRE-MARIE-LOUIS DE. Ancient and Modern Malta: containing a Description of the Ports and Cities of the Islands of Malta and Goza. As also, The History of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. 24 uncolored aquatint and engraved plates; folding engraved map measuring 615x1335 mm, backed with linen and bound as Volume 1 frontispiece; 3 folding letterpress tables. Half-titles; errata leaf. 3 volumes. 4to, contemporary 1/2 russia gilt, Volume 1 spine and cover edges worn, rear joint cracked; foxing on map and some plates, institutional stamps on titles, verso of engraved matter, and elsewhere in text; bookplates. London, 1804

Additional Details

first edition. Abbey Travel 194.