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Lot 126: PORTER, ROBERT KER.

Est: £1,000 GBP - £1,500 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 10, 2009

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TRAVELLING SKETCHES IN RUSSIA AND SWEDEN, DURING THE YEARS 1805 [-1808]. .LONDON: FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS BY T. GILLET, 1809.
First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (291 x 227mm.), 40 aquatints plates, most hand-coloured, 3 folding, engraved portrait of Gustav Vasa in volume II, contemporary diced russia gilt, Courtenay crest gilt on upper covers, [Abbey, Travel 13; Tooley (1954) 383], fragment of tissue guard pasted to view of Moscow, occasional offsetting, spines faded, joints cracked, extremities slightly rubbed

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Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History

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Sotheby's
November 10, 2009, 10:30 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK