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Lot 177
Sale 503 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sep 13, 2017
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CHORIS, Louis (1795-1828)
A pair of hand-colored lithographic prints from Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avex des portraits de sauvages d'Amrique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des iles du Grand Ocean, [Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822], comprising:Oululuk principal tablissemt. sur l'le d'Ounalachka. (Plate 80). (Light marginal chipping.)Vue du port d'Ounalaschka (Kapitanskaya havan). (Plate 84). (A few pale stains.)Two fine views of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands from Choris' "elaborately handsome work by the artist with Kotzebue's 1816 expedition in which a long visit was made to the Pacific coast from California to Bering's sea" (Howes). Images 153 x 326 mm (246 x 417 mm sheets).
