Asta: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art del 16/17. novembre 2009 ad Amburgo Lot 1237

William Saville-Kent - The great Barrier Reef. 1893


1237
William Saville-Kent
The great Barrier Reef. 1893
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€ 200 / $ 214
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€ 588 / $ 629

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Saville-Kent, W., The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities. With 16 chromolithogr. and 48 photogr. plates as well as 1 folding map. London, W. H. Allen (1893). Orig. cloth with gilt lettering. Folio. XVII pp., 1 l., 387 pp.
Ferguson 11105. - Nissen Zool. 3609. - Only edition. - "Contains a vast amount of information about a region then little known." (Ferguson). Extensively covers corals, pearls, shells and fish as well as their sowie processing. - 1 plate detached, endpaper with overpainted ownership entry. Rear boad with trace of damp.




1237
William Saville-Kent
The great Barrier Reef. 1893
Stima:
€ 200 / $ 214
Risultato:
€ 588 / $ 629

( commissione inclusa)