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Smith, Elder & Co

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  1. The Works
    William Makepeace THACKERAY

    The Works

    Smith, Elder & Co|London 1869|14 x 22 cm|24 volumes reliés
    First collected edition. The first 22 volumes are dated 1869, the last two (Miscellaneous Essays) were published in 1886, and it is very rare to find them together. Abundant illustration with plates (approximately 250 engravings) and text illustrations (1500 wood engravings) by the author, Doyle, Walker, Du Maurier and others. The novels contain a frontispiece and an engraved title. Some volumes still have conjugate leaves.
    Publisher's full green cloth binding, gilt. Smooth spine elaborately gilt in compartments. Boards stamped in blind with decorative plate and central gilt monogram of WPT. One small split to headcap of volume 2 of The Newcomes, 2 to the Burlesques volume, otherwise he
    €1,500
  2. Antiquities of Kertch, and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus; with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea
    Duncan MACPHERSON

    Antiquities of Kertch, and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus; with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea

    Smith, Elder & Co|London [Londres [London]] 1857|28 x 37.8 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur

    First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece depicting the site of the ancient city of Panticapaeum (now Kerch, in Crimea), a title-page vignette showing a view of the modern town, two maps (Greek colonies of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea; the Strait of Kerch, with Macpherson’s route), as well as 12 plates, 9 of them in colour (tumuli, vases, bronzes, oil lamps, statuettes, symbols, inscriptions and various objects recovered during excavations), and numerous wood-engravings in the text.

    Cf. Abbey, Travel in aquatint and lithography, 243. Blackmer, 1055.

    Publisher’s grey blind-stamped cloth, gilt title lettered lengthwise to the smooth spine, large gilt device blocked at th

    €2,800
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