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ORME (EDWARD, publisher) A Collection of Portraits of the Savage Tribes Inhabiting the Boundarie...
ORME (EDWARD, publisher) A Collection of Portraits of the Savage Tribes Inhabiting the Boundaries of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Taken from Life in 1812, by an Officer of the 21st Lt. Dragoons Engaged in an Expedition against those Tribes under Lt. Col. Graham, FIRST EDITION, 8 hand-coloured lithographed or aquatint plates, light spotting and handling smudges, modern red half calf over old marbled boards [Mendelssohn II, p.271, 'a great rarity'], small folio (342 x 252mm.), Edward Orme, 10 May, 1822 Footnotes: EXCEEDINGLY RARE COMPLETE COPY, only two or three others copies appearing in Rare Book Hub. Provenance: J. Howell, inscription dated 1829 on front free endpaper; Alpheus Fuller Williams (1874-1953), book label; I. & F.W. Hosken, bookplate; Vergenoeg, bookplate. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
ORME (EDWARD, publisher) A Collection of Portraits of the Savage Tribes Inhabiting the Boundaries of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Taken from Life in 1812, by an Officer of the 21st Lt. Dragoons Engaged in an Expedition against those Tribes under Lt. Col. Graham, FIRST EDITION, 8 hand-coloured lithographed or aquatint plates, light spotting and handling smudges, modern red half calf over old marbled boards [Mendelssohn II, p.271, 'a great rarity'], small folio (342 x 252mm.), Edward Orme, 10 May, 1822 Footnotes: EXCEEDINGLY RARE COMPLETE COPY, only two or three others copies appearing in Rare Book Hub. Provenance: J. Howell, inscription dated 1829 on front free endpaper; Alpheus Fuller Williams (1874-1953), book label; I. & F.W. Hosken, bookplate; Vergenoeg, bookplate. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing