Sloane, Sir Hans A VOYAGE TO THE ISLANDS MADERA, BARBADOS, NIEVES, S. CHRISTOPHERS AND JAMAICA, WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HERBS AND TREES, FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS, FISHES, BIRDS, INSECTS, REPTILES, &C. OF THE LAST OF THOSE ISLANDS... WITH SOME RELATIONS CONCERNING THE NEIGHBOURING CONTINENT, AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA. LONDON: [VOL.1: BY B[ENJAMIN] M[OTTE]] FOR THE AUTHOR, 1707-1725 2 volumes, folio (13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.; 343 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black, woodcut music in text (one and a half pages), large folding sheet with engraved map of Jamaica and charts of the Western Ocean and 'Caribee Islands' [Plate I], and 284 fine double-page or folding plates labeled "Plate II-XI" and "Tab 1-274" mostly by Michael Vander Gucht or John Savage mounted on guards; possibly washed, "Tab 1 bound in vol 2, 8 plates lightly browned, light dampstain in upper outer corner of some plates in vol 1 and in lower margin of some in vol 2, a few plates slightly shaved with loss of image or number. Contemporary mottled calf, spines in seven compartments with raised bands gilt, sprinkled red edges; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners mended, scuffed.
Sloane, Sir Hans A VOYAGE TO THE ISLANDS MADERA, BARBADOS, NIEVES, S. CHRISTOPHERS AND JAMAICA, WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HERBS AND TREES, FOUR-FOOTED BEASTS, FISHES, BIRDS, INSECTS, REPTILES, &C. OF THE LAST OF THOSE ISLANDS... WITH SOME RELATIONS CONCERNING THE NEIGHBOURING CONTINENT, AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA. LONDON: [VOL.1: BY B[ENJAMIN] M[OTTE]] FOR THE AUTHOR, 1707-1725 2 volumes, folio (13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.; 343 x 248 mm). Titles printed in red and black, woodcut music in text (one and a half pages), large folding sheet with engraved map of Jamaica and charts of the Western Ocean and 'Caribee Islands' [Plate I], and 284 fine double-page or folding plates labeled "Plate II-XI" and "Tab 1-274" mostly by Michael Vander Gucht or John Savage mounted on guards; possibly washed, "Tab 1 bound in vol 2, 8 plates lightly browned, light dampstain in upper outer corner of some plates in vol 1 and in lower margin of some in vol 2, a few plates slightly shaved with loss of image or number. Contemporary mottled calf, spines in seven compartments with raised bands gilt, sprinkled red edges; rebacked with original spine laid down, corners mended, scuffed.
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