10th Jan, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Roger Casson Collection

 
Lot 6
 

6

Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the...

Parry (William Edward)
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper ..., John Murray, 1821, first edition, quarto, presentation inscription from the author to his father, six charts (four folding) and fourteen plates as called for, errata slip, [bound with]
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, A Supplement to The Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage in the Years 1819-20. Containing An Account of the Subjects of Natural History, 1824, John Murray, presentation inscription from the author to his mother, six engraved plates, early marbled boards with recent half calf

Sold for £1,000
Estimated at £400 - £600


 

Foxing to the preliminaries. Repaired tear to title page which also has some creasing. Foxing to plates as well as offsetting to adjacent pages. Pages generally clean. Endpapers stained. New paper fillets at endpaper hinges. Bookplate to front pastedown. Marble boards rubbed with wear to the bottom edge.

 


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Auction: The Roger Casson Collection, 10th Jan, 2019

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