Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princess Island, etc. etc. HOLMAN James 1786-1857 Publisher: George Routledge Publish Year: 1840 Publish Place: London: 11, Ryder's Court, Leicester Square. Illustrator: WAGEMAN. HAGE L. BARBER Lt RN. GALLER JM RN. AGASSI Lt JD RN. Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 006176 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: 2nd Edition Inscription: Unknown £850 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information 1840, 2nd ed, VG, 6 pls (including frontis). In contemporary full calf, new tips, blind & gilt edge tooling. Re-spine retaining old, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to red calf label. Internally, frontis, [5], (iv-x), [2], [1], 2-491 pp, 6 pls (1 folding), red marbled endpapers & text block edges, bookplate to fpd (Sir John Marjoribanks 1830-1884), ink dedication to ffep (to Sir John 1848), some faint edge browning, offsetting, some very occasional spotting, & foxing to folding plate, 1 pl corner repaired, printed by G Norman, 29, Maiden-Lane, Covent-Garden. (Folio, 134*211 mm). (Cordell - The Human Tradition in Modern Africa. Gentlemens Magazine V173-174 #7 05). Please contact for more information. A reprint of Vol 1, of Holman's Voyage around the world (1834) (the 1st ed), with a new titlepage. Holman was known as 'The Blind Traveler' and traveled extensively especially in China and Africa. See ODNB.
