Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana
Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana
Ackermann and Co.
Schomburgk, Robert H.[ermann]
Bentley, Charles
1364
[8], 38pp, coloured lithographic additional title, full page map and twelve coloured, tissue guarded, lithographic plates, original pictorial boards.
Boards rubbed, paper covering boards chipped to edges and corners with small amounts of loss, rebacked. Endpapers browned and heavily creased, some light foxing throughout, but generally fairly clean, a couple of pages including the title, a couple of pages have a bottom corner missing, a few small marginal tears to a couple of the plates and a couple of the tissue guards have been repaired to fore edges.
Housed in a cloth chemise, with a title label. With two short A.L.S.'s from Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, dated 1847, declining invitations due to previous engagements.
Large paper, coloured copy (it was also published in a plain, and presumably smaller, state).
Schomburgk, who laid down the Schomburgk Line on a later expedition dividing British Guiana from Venezuela, was knighted in 1844.
Abbey Travel 720; Tooley 447
Folio
Good
Original Boards
London
1841
First Edition
With A.L.S.
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