Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £130 |
M’LEOD, John ([?]1777-1820). Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of her Subsequent Shipwreck … Second edition. London: John Murray, 1818. Tall 8vo (228 x 140mm). Half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 4-pages of publisher’s advertisements at the end (some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary paper boards, printed label on spine (rebacked, label worn). Provenance: H. V. Thompson (bookplate); old catalogue descriptions tipped-in and an envelope laid down at the end containing 3 duplicate aquatint plates; from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). Abbey Travel 559; Lipperheide 1529.