A Naval Officer [Edward Boid]: Travels through Sicily and the Lipari Islands in the Month of December 1824. , London: for T. Flint, 1827 [FIRST EDITION]8 x 5 inches (21 x 13 cms), xvi, 367 pages. 12 plates (8 views; 4 hand-coloured costume plates). Early half calf. Some foxing and occasional marginal worming. Albeit with some foxing, heavy in places, and slight worming in the margins of a few pages, a pleasant enough example of the exceedingly scarce first edition of this important work on Sicily, complete with all its 12 plates including the 4 hand-coloured plates of inhabitants of the islands. (Price includes postage UK) (Book ref. as-1933) £450.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Unique or Rare , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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