New Guinea: What I Did and What I Saw Two volume set.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881. Second edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xii 424pp, xii406pp. Frontispiece. Volume 1 illustrated with 4 chromolithograph plates of birds and 36 additional full page engravings and vignettes, complete. Volume 2 with 29 plates or vignettes as well as a color fold-out map in the rear "Fly River". Stated second edition, which is the first American edition printed with the second English edition sheets. Bound into worn brown library binding. There are numerous stamps and and stickers including to all of the chromolitho plates. The front gutter of volume 1 is cracked. In volume two, the gathering comprising pp 161-224 has been miss-bound to be after page 240 and the plate that's noted as being opposite page 327 is actually at page 160. All pages present. A working set of this rare work. Fair. Item #70421
Price: $500.00