$600
Estimate: $400 - $600
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
London and New York: John Tallis & Company, no date (ca. early 1850s). In two volumes. 4to. xx, 596; xi, 556 pp. Illustrated with two engraved frontispiece portraits, two engraved title-pages, three maps (two double-page), and one plate depicting the death of Cook. Contemporary full brown polished calf stamped in gilt, black morocco spine labels, extremities and joints rubbed on each volume, bottom joint on first volume split; marbled edges; matching marbled endpapers; contemporary ownership signature on title-page of first volume, dated January, 1853; scattered minor spotting in each volume.