Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
OSBORNE, THOMAS. A Collection of Voyages and Travels. Engraved frontispiece and 15 (of ?) plates; 37 maps; double-page table. [4], xii, [30], lviii, 261, [1], [409]-630, 799-873; [2], 402, 393-663, [1], [733]-931 pages, with index bound with preliminaries. 2 volumes. Folio, 373x238 mm, contemporary gilt-decorated calf spines with later diced russia covers, Volume 1 spine chipped at bottom; brown stain in upper inner corner of 5h1 in Volume 2 lightly offsetting onto facing map and following leaf, some leaves browned toward end of volume, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplates of Dogmersfield Library (i. e., Sir Henry St. John Mildmay, 1787-1848) and Wolfgang A. Herz; early 20th-century book ticket of J. W. Robinson Co. of Los Angeles (priced at $27.50). London: Thomas Osborne, 1745

Additional Details

Separate issue of Volumes 7 and 8 of Awnsham Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels. Alden 745/156; Hill 295 note.