Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Livres anciens et modernes

Sotheby'S

The Longueville Collection of Voyages and Travels to Australia and the South Seas

1993

42,30 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Demander plus d'informations

Mode de Paiement

Détails

Année
1993
Lieu d'édition
. Sotheby's
Auteur
Sotheby'S
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Pacific & Australia Reference
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

4to [27 x 21 cm]; 159, [xiii] pp, many illustrations, including colored, including many full-page, maps, bibliography, index. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title lettering on spine and cover, fine and clean, with the loose leaf of prices realized and with the loose prospectus for the sale including colored illustrations. A picture of this book is available upon request b A beautifully illustrated Sotheby's sale of books on Australia and Pacific, from a collection amassed over many years, describing 278 items in detail, very well-illustrated, sale held in London, 25 June 1993. A very useful reference covering a period of 400 years of exploration beginning with the first publication of Rotz's great atlas from 1542 and including Pacific voyages and discovery, the first fleet and settlement of Australia, first fleet association copies, coastal surveying of Australia, inland exploration, etc.