Lot 1271 , Raffles, Thomas, Stamford, Sir - Plates to Raffles History of Java, plates badly water stained, Henry G. Bohn, London, 1844

Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford – Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java,
engraved folded map and 92 plates (incl. 10 hand-coloured aquatints of costume); later 19th century gilt-ruled and lettered cloth, folio, Henry G. Bohn

£300-400

Condition:
Including 1 d-page and 2 fld.plts, costume plts clean, the remainder mostly stained (markedly across plt. Surface), 1 is creased, large map has some spotting – but good overall, this is the atlas of plts first published with the 2nd edition of ‘The History of Java’ (2 vols, 1830) All of the 10 coloured plates have light staining to the border/margin. Only 2 or 3 have small spots of staining within the image.

Sold for £280