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SHIPLEY, Conway (1824-1888). Sketches in the Pacific. The South Sea Islands. London: Published by T. Mclean, 1851.
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SHIPLEY, Conway (1824-1888). Sketches in the Pacific. The South Sea Islands. London: Published by T. Mclean, 1851.
2o (425 x 331 mm). Hand-colored lithographed title-page, plate of facsimile signatures and 25 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after Shipley. (Lacking the first 6 (of 18) leaves of text.) Publisher's blue moiré cloth, front cover with title gilt-lettered in central cartouche, red cloth spine, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: William Bellingham (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Fully-colored copies are very scarce, with none appearing in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Abbey Travel 601 ("Most of the material for this work was obtained on visits to various mission stations in the Pacific"); Ferguson 15656a. A FULLY-COLORED COPY OF THIS VERY SCARCE NEW ZEALAND VIEW BOOK.
2o (425 x 331 mm). Hand-colored lithographed title-page, plate of facsimile signatures and 25 hand-colored lithographed plates by and after Shipley. (Lacking the first 6 (of 18) leaves of text.) Publisher's blue moiré cloth, front cover with title gilt-lettered in central cartouche, red cloth spine, gilt-lettered on spine. Provenance: William Bellingham (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Fully-colored copies are very scarce, with none appearing in American Book Prices Current in at least 30 years. Abbey Travel 601 ("Most of the material for this work was obtained on visits to various mission stations in the Pacific"); Ferguson 15656a. A FULLY-COLORED COPY OF THIS VERY SCARCE NEW ZEALAND VIEW BOOK.