Lot 15 , HEYDT, Geographisch und Topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa...1744, 3 vols

HEYDT (Johann Wolfgang), 'Geographisch und Topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien...', Nuremberg, J. C. Tetschner...1744, bound in three oblong folios, one half calf with titlepage and descriptive text and two full calf, 'Ceylon' with 42 engraved views and maps (one coloured) and 'Batavia' with 47 views (both missing plates and bound out of order) and 23 further unbound plates (total 112)
Estimate £600-800

Discolouration and staining to all pages. this has been later bound into three separate volumes with the text separated from the illustrations, the majority of the illustrations have some sort of damaged such as as tear or small loss and all have been laid down on card, some illustrated pages are loose.


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Sold for £650