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Auction archive: Lot number 223

Voyages.- Campbell (Archibald) A Voyage round the World...in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited, first edition, Edinburgh &c., 1816.

Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$3,751 - US$5,002
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 223

Voyages.- Campbell (Archibald) A Voyage round the World...in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited, first edition, Edinburgh &c., 1816.

Estimate
£3,000 - £4,000
ca. US$3,751 - US$5,002
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Voyages.- Campbell (Archibald) A Voyage round the World...in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited, first edition, half-title, folding engraved map frontispiece with hand-coloured route and wash border, lightly offset, some foxing and browning, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, a fine copy, [Forbes 448; Hill 244; Howes C-88; Sabin 10210; Streeter sale 2418], 8vo, Edinburgh &c., 1816. ⁂ The editor, James Smith's copy, with his bookplate and presentation inscription on half-title to Count Revdin, whose bookplate is also included. The book was published by Smith for the benefit of the author who had lost both his feet to frostbite following the shipwreck of the Eclipse and after a journey along the coast of Alaska in a long boat to Kodiak. He was sent to Hawaii to recuperate, spending over a year there. "The author lived among the chiefs and then with Isaac Davis...His keen firsthand observations on the social structure and agricultural practices of Hawaiians are of great importance." (Forbes).

Auction archive: Lot number 223
Auction:
Datum:
26 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Voyages.- Campbell (Archibald) A Voyage round the World...in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited, first edition, half-title, folding engraved map frontispiece with hand-coloured route and wash border, lightly offset, some foxing and browning, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, a fine copy, [Forbes 448; Hill 244; Howes C-88; Sabin 10210; Streeter sale 2418], 8vo, Edinburgh &c., 1816. ⁂ The editor, James Smith's copy, with his bookplate and presentation inscription on half-title to Count Revdin, whose bookplate is also included. The book was published by Smith for the benefit of the author who had lost both his feet to frostbite following the shipwreck of the Eclipse and after a journey along the coast of Alaska in a long boat to Kodiak. He was sent to Hawaii to recuperate, spending over a year there. "The author lived among the chiefs and then with Isaac Davis...His keen firsthand observations on the social structure and agricultural practices of Hawaiians are of great importance." (Forbes).

Auction archive: Lot number 223
Auction:
Datum:
26 Sep 2019
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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