GRAY, Asa. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes Botany, Phanerogamia , New York: George P. Putnam, 1854-57, 2 volumes, 4° and large 2° (atlas), 100 engraved plates (the plates heavily spotted, titles to both vols. with library stamps), contemporary half calf (covers detached) Provenance : Hill Thompson (presentation label) [Sabin 28368] -- Charles WILKES Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842 , Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845, 6 volumes including atlas, 4°, atlas with 6 folding engraved maps, engraved plates and maps in text volumes, wood-engraved illustrations (one map in the atlas lacking a section and torn in two, others heavily repaired and also affected by damp, lacking frontispiece to vol. I, spotting to text and plates, title perforations and library marks to preliminaries), contemporary red half morocco (very rubbed) and blue buckram (atlas) [cf. Sabin 103994] With another volume of related interest. The lot sold not subject to return. (9)
GRAY, Asa. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes Botany, Phanerogamia , New York: George P. Putnam, 1854-57, 2 volumes, 4° and large 2° (atlas), 100 engraved plates (the plates heavily spotted, titles to both vols. with library stamps), contemporary half calf (covers detached) Provenance : Hill Thompson (presentation label) [Sabin 28368] -- Charles WILKES Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842 , Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845, 6 volumes including atlas, 4°, atlas with 6 folding engraved maps, engraved plates and maps in text volumes, wood-engraved illustrations (one map in the atlas lacking a section and torn in two, others heavily repaired and also affected by damp, lacking frontispiece to vol. I, spotting to text and plates, title perforations and library marks to preliminaries), contemporary red half morocco (very rubbed) and blue buckram (atlas) [cf. Sabin 103994] With another volume of related interest. The lot sold not subject to return. (9)
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