Lot 646

MARRYAT, Frank Samuel (1826-55). Borneo and the Indian Archipelago.

Estimate: £400 - £600
Hammer price: £750
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

MARRYAT, Frank Samuel (1826-55).  Borneo and the Indian Archipelago. With Drawings of Costume and Scenery. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. Tall 8vo (264 x 175mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 20 lithographed plates, many tinted (plates lightly browned, some mainly marginal spotting, staining and browning, a few short marginal tears). Modern half calf gilt, new endpapers. Provenance: Ipswich Public Library (stamps to plates and on verso of title). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 549; Hill p. 1088. With Cuthbert Collingwood’s Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea (London, 1868, modern half calf). Provenance: from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). (2)

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