Lot 331 , Whitehead, John - Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo....32 plates (mostly hand coloured or tinted lithographs), text engravings; publisher's gilt and coloured pictorial cloth, gilt top, roy. 4to. Gurney and Jac

° Whitehead, John - Exploration of Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo....32 plates (mostly hand coloured or tinted lithographs), text engravings; publisher's gilt and coloured pictorial cloth, gilt top, roy. 4to. Gurney and Jackson, 1893
£600-900

Condition:
Cloth wear at corners (markedly), also head/tail of spine and some board edges, inner hinges weak, some title spotting and on last 2pp., o/w. mostly clean; nick/clean tear edge of upper margins pp. 175-217 (but well above text), front free e/p. sl.tears and edge fraying. There are some coloured nat. hist. plts. of birds, insects and reptiles; tissue guard present at frontis.; xii, 317pp.; contemp. pict.bkplt. of George Ferguson

Sold for £550