Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FORREST, THOMAS. A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan . . . performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the Honourable East India Company, during the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776 . . . to which is added, A Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 32 engraved plates and maps, including 18 folding. xxiii, [1], 388, 13, [2] pages. 4to, 285x225 mm, contemporary calf, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip; varying offsetting from or onto engraved matter, contents otherwise clean. Bookplates of John Rogers and Frank S. Streeter (sale, Christie's, 17 April 2007, lot 193). London: G. Scott for J. Robson et al., 1779

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first edition. Hill 623.