Lot 83: Guillemard The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea

GUILLEMARD, FRANCIS HENRY HILL

The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various Islands of the Malay Archipelago. London: John Murray, 1886. First edition. Publisher's decorative blue cloth over bevelled boards. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (22 x 16 cm); (vol. 1) xviii, [2], 284 pp.; (vol. 2) xvi, [2], 400 pp.; 14 maps (13 colored, 4 folding), 30 plates (2 hand-colored frontispieces). Neatly rebacked, trace of circulating library labels on covers, new endpapers, scattered foxing.

Volume I has one hand-colored litho plate by J. G. Keulemans, and 10 uncolored plates, with 5 uncolored maps (one fold-out). Volume II one hand-colored litho and 7 uncolored plates by J. G. Keulemans, 11 uncolored litho plate,, 9 maps (some folding) and text figures.