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Captivating drawings of 19th-century Chile, especially of the Valparaíso region

[DRAWING ALBUM - CHILE - TAHITI]. [Nineteenth-century album with drawings of Chile and Tahiti].
[1856-1868]. Folio (29.5 x 25 cm). With a gold-stamped title-page and 46 drawings: 26 detailed views in pencil (the majority with an eggwash and captioned in pencil below the illustations), 14 sketches in pencil of people, animals, and views, and 6 handcoloured drawings (1 representing some playing cards, the others show detailed representations of flowers and plants. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-tooled dark purple sheepskin(?), with an ornate geometric pattern within a gold-tooled frame on the front board, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk endpapers. [85] ll. Full description
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French expedition to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, with 60 lithographed plates

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. Entdeckungs-Reise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe unternommen auf Befehl König Karls X. in den Jahren 1826-1827-1828-1829.
Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, [ca. 1840]. 2 parts in 1 volume (text and plates). Folio. With a lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates. Modern green half morocco, original boards. 118, [1], [1 blank] Full description
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