26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper

 
  Lot 74
 

Brooke (Arthur de Capell).- With the author’s bookplate, Travels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark

Brooke (Arthur de Capell).- With the author’s bookplate

Travels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to The North Cape, [Abbey Travel 248], half-title, 22 lithographic plates including portrait frontispiece, 2 coloured, 11 vignettes, spotting, majority of pages uncut, for J. Rodwell, [1823];

[with]

A Winter in Lapland and Sweden with various Observations relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants, [Abbey Travel 250], 22 plates including frontispiece, folding map at rear, 8 vignettes in text, some on india paper, folding map with some tears at joins, not including advertisement leaf, numerous uncut pages, intermittent heavy spotting and browning, author’s bookplate to front pastedown and cancelled signature to free endpaper, J. Murray, [1827];

contemporary panelled cloth with gilt morocco spine labels, rebacked preserving most of original spines, some fading, large 4to (2)


***Possibly pre-publication copies (as the title pages are undated).

Sold for £400

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