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Lot 144

Sale 5465 - The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer, Part III
Jan 30, 2020 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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[Travel & Exploration] [China] Fortune, Robert Three Year's Wanderings in The Northern Provinces of China, including A Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries: With an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants,...

... etc. London: John Murray, 1847. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with tinted lithographic frontispiece with tissue guard, additional vignette title, one map, two tinted lithographic plates with tissue guards, one full page wood engraved illustration, and 11 wood engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary brown calf, gilt, rebacked in modern black calf, russet morocco spine label, contemporary marbled endpapers and edges; extremities often a little rubbed; damp stain in upper top margin of the plate following p. 82. School prize binding.

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