Sold for:
$2,440

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 4to, 3/4 morocco with gilt inlay, spine gilt in compartments, silk page marker, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. First edition. With large folding map, fold-out table of "Vocabularies," 13 engraved plates with tissue guards and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by American diplomat Roger Tredwell, known for his imprisonment by the Russian Bolsheviks, to front fly leaf with an album of vintage photographs taken by him in Egypt and Africa. Wear to boards and backstrip; some wear to map; otherwise fine.


Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

Date:
2009-03-24