Sold
$275
Est.
$300
- $500
Live Auction
Books, Art, and Ephemera
Description
ANSON, GEORGE. A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1749. 4to. Rebound, retaining/applied gilt-bordered mottled calf and spine title. With copper engraved folding world map at title page, and 42 (out of 42) plates, including fold-out maps, charts, views. Condition: Rebound; wear and losses to ends of spine (significant at head), joints, corners, and edges; scuffing to calf; significant splitting/partially detached at dedication page to contents; detached signature pp. 114-118; partially detached signature at p. 409; varying degrees of scattered foxing and toning. Plates in overall good condition. 20th century bookplate on pastedown.