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Tahiti: A Series of Photographs
Author:
STUART-WORTLEY, COLONEL & BRASSEY, LADY
Title:
Tahiti: A Series of Photographs
Publisher:
Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1882
Description:
31 PLATES (RANDOM ORDER), ONE PLATE LOOSE, FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, Cook's first landing with gilt palms illus to front board, gilt lettering to spine, continuation of leaf illus to rear and spine, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece, 69 pp, VG- (moderate bruising and scuffing to spine extrems and board corners, heavy cracks to gutters, previous owner's name crossed out in ink to fep, minor foxing throughout, 1cm hole and smaller holes with closed tears to rear eps)
Keywords:
Biography memoir Colonel Wortley Tahiti perspectives family servants landscapes