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HALL (BASIL) Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island, London, John Murray, 1818, 4to, first edition, 9 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, after WILLIAM HAVELL, one engraved plate, and 5 maps, 3 folding (occasional light spotting), 19th century crimson half morocco, spine gilt (faded), bookplate of 4th Earl of Egremont. [Abbey Travel 558]

細節
HALL (BASIL) Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island, London, John Murray, 1818, 4to, first edition, 9 aquatint plates, all but one hand-coloured, after WILLIAM HAVELL, one engraved plate, and 5 maps, 3 folding (occasional light spotting), 19th century crimson half morocco, spine gilt (faded), bookplate of 4th Earl of Egremont. [Abbey Travel 558]

拍品專文

Abbey records that the Edinburgh Review received the book with great enthusiasm: 'We do not know when we have met with a more pleasing work than this delightful account of the people of Loo-Choo. [It] makes us proud of our country, and puts us in good humour with our species.'