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Lot 433
Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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[FELLOWS, ROBERT] AND ROBERT KNOX
The History of Ceylon, From the Earliest Years to the Year MDCCCXV ... to which is subjoined, Robert Knox's Historical Relation of the Island, with an Account of His Captivity During a Period of Near Twenty Years. London: Printed for Joseph Mawman by J.F. Dove, 1817. 2 works in one. 4to, rebound in modern quarter smooth magenta calf over matching marbled boards, marbled edges, endpapers renewed, engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Knox, folding map and [15] plates. First edition. Offsetting from frontispiece; brown ink stain on title of History of Ceylon from manuscript ex-libris on pp. 1/2 (illeg.); ex-libris Free Public Library, Wigam to first title page; light interior brown spotting and light dampstain to map.



