The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose: The First and Second Portions: Travel & Exploration, Navigation & Trade A - L & M - Z Sotheby & Co. Auction Catalogue
by Sotheby & Co
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket As Issued
- Seller
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Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Sotheby & Co., 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Complete in two volumes. Sotheby's Auction Catalogues from their sale of 'The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose'. The two vols cover the First and Second Portions of Travel & Exploration, Navigation & Trade, along with Fourteen Geographical Manuscripts, English & Continental Books of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries. Auctions held on Monday 7th June and Tuesday 9th November 1971 at Sotheby's New Bond Street Galleries. Lists of Prices and Buyers' Names laid in to both vols (two in vol. 2), also a small press cutting about the second part of the sale. Green paper-covered boards with light wear and slight sunning to spines. Contents clean without inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Illustrations throughout, some folding. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA) (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005490
- Title
- The Celebrated Library of Boies Penrose: The First and Second Portions: Travel & Exploration, Navigation & Trade A - L & M - Z Sotheby & Co. Auction Catalogue
- Author
- Sotheby & Co
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket As Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sotheby & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Books About Books; Travel & Exploration; History; Sotheby's Auction Catalogue; Antiquarian Books About Travel & Exploration
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
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Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
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