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Captain Drury 'Revised Sailing Directions...'
Starting Bid: $700
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,500
Ended
Timed Auction
191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 2: Online Auction (lot 95-432)
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Description
Captain Drury
Revised Sailing Directions &c, &c, For the Northern Part of the Colony of New Zealand
by Captain Drury, H.M.S. Pandora. Auckland: Printer for the New Zealand Government by Williamson & Wilson 1855. 93p, errata at end, small neat notation on endpaper re testimonial details in Nautical Magazine [1856]. 185mm bound with the original yellow paper covers in later quarter brown leather, title label along spine and with tan cloth boards. Rare.
Fine copy with the book plate of G. & N. Ingleton front endpaper and loosely enclosed a purchase invoice from Maggs Bros London 2001.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
Revised Sailing Directions &c, &c, For the Northern Part of the Colony of New Zealand
by Captain Drury, H.M.S. Pandora. Auckland: Printer for the New Zealand Government by Williamson & Wilson 1855. 93p, errata at end, small neat notation on endpaper re testimonial details in Nautical Magazine [1856]. 185mm bound with the original yellow paper covers in later quarter brown leather, title label along spine and with tan cloth boards. Rare.
Fine copy with the book plate of G. & N. Ingleton front endpaper and loosely enclosed a purchase invoice from Maggs Bros London 2001.
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
