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LOT 813
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Two titles: (1) Chap. XIV. Sandwich Islands.

Quire from A New Royal and Authentic System of Universal Geography (...) by Thomas Bankes, Edward Warren Blake and Alexander Cook, c. 1790, 87-106 p., with 3 engraved plates with full-page illustration and 5 engraved plates with each 2 half-page illustrations, no binding, folio.

Mild tanning, leaves partly loose. Sold w.a.f. With fine plates, incl. "View of Karakaooa Bay in Owyhee, where Captn. Cook was Killed", "Habitations and people of the Island of Atooi", "A man of the Sandwich islands dancing"; (2) Glimpses of Maori land. By Annie R. Butler. London, Religious Tract Society, 1886, 260,(16 advert.) p., with wood-engraved frontispiece, map of New Zealand and 8 illustrations, original gilt illustrated cloth (hinges fragile on inside). (total 2)

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