ID 1028573
Lot 260 | Album of drawings and photographs, with Journal of a Tour in Marocco, 1878, first edition
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
i. Folio album (363 x 260mm.), 30 pencil and ink sketches, 2 watercolour sketches, 17 gelatin print photographs, 2 pages of manuscript notes, on paper mounts, contemporary maroon half morocco, silk endpapers, some spotting and browning to mounts, photographs slightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed
ii. J.D. Hooker and John Ball. Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas. London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. First edition, 8vo (222 x 146mm.), folding frontispiece ("panorama of the Great Atlas from the city of Marocco"), title-page vignette, 8 further plates (including folding "geological section of the Plain of Marocco and the Great Atlas" and "New Map of South Marocco by John Ball"), plus numerous in-text illustrations, contemporary green pictorial cloth gilt, design of the Tower of Koutoubia in gilt to upper cover, black endpapers, hinges and joints splitting (especially upper joint), slight damp-staining to upper cover
"This journey was undertaken in 1871 and the account of its botany and geology is one of the most important works that has been written on the country" (Playfair).
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