From Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
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A very good clean copy, in original red cloth binding, with gilt design to front board. Some sunning to top edge of front board. xiipp 388pp. With 26 plates including 25 fine lithographed plates finished in colour, one facsimile of a Japanese voucher (plate XXV in list) and two coloured maps (one folding).Plates VII to XIV bound between pp192-193 not as listed. All plates etc present as called for. A.D. Frederickson was a botanist and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in the late 1800s. He travelled from London to Arabia, India, China, the Orient and over the Pacific to the USA. During his travels, he sketched interesting scenes, plants and people. He had his sketches made into colourful lithographs for this volume.The plates are from his drawings and depict plants, fruits, views and natives along the route. All most attractively drawn and reproduced. Seller Inventory # 057396
Bibliographic Details
Title: Ad Orientem
Publisher: W.H. Allen & Co, London
Publication Date: 1889
Binding: Hardback
Illustrator: Frederickson, A.D.
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
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