9th Oct, 2024 11:00

The Fine Collectors Sale

 
Lot 250
 

Voyage of the Challenger, Whyville Thompson

Voyage of the Challenger: Atlantic; a Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876, C. Wyville Thomson, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1878, American 1st edition, in Two Volumes, Vol I: xx, 391pp., Vol II: xiii, 340 pp., 9 x 6¼ inches, green fabric boards with gilt titling to spine, Condition covers and spine scuffed and stained, shelf wear to head and foot of spine, and bottom edge, corners worn to boards, top text edge soiled, library sticker to inside front cover with library stamp, boards slightly separating at hinge. Ex-library edition.

Sold for £112

Result including buyers premium


 

Voyage of the Challenger: Atlantic; a Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876, C. Wyville Thomson, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York, 1878, American 1st edition, in Two Volumes, Vol I: xx, 391pp., Vol II: xiii, 340 pp., 9 x 6¼ inches, green fabric boards with gilt titling to spine, Condition covers and spine scuffed and stained, shelf wear to head and foot of spine, and bottom edge, corners worn to boards, top text edge soiled, library sticker to inside front cover with library stamp, boards slightly separating at hinge. Ex-library edition.

Auction: The Fine Collectors Sale, 9th Oct, 2024

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