ADAMS, Wm. M.A.

The Modern Voyager and Traveller through Europe, Asia, Africa & America

London: Fisher, 1824. Small 8vo. Hardcover. 4 vols. Complete with hand-coloured frontispieces & vignettes on titles, 42 hand-coloured plates, 3 folding maps & engraved plates. Later half calf and contemporary marbled boards. Brightly hand-coloured plates of indigenous people, particularly of Ashanti in Africa, Boers, Hottentot huts etc, first nation people and settlers in Canada, a Chinese funeral, slaves, indigenous people of Java, etc . A comprehensive tour of the world in 4 volumes, with a view of the early 19th C British empire. Very Good. Item #020290

Price: $2,660.00 NZD