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The World in Miniature

Lot 185
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1032837
Lot 185 | The World in Miniature
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 9 000
Frederic SHOBERL (1775-1853), editor. The World in Miniature. London: R Ackerman [1821-1827].

First edition 30-volume set in original boards. Comprising: Austria, 2 volumes; China, 2 volumes; England, Scotland and Ireland, 4 volumes; Hindoostan, 6 volumes; Russia, 4 volumes; South Sea Islands, 2 volumes; Spain and Portugal, 2 volumes; Switzerland; Tibet; Turkey, 6 volumes. With all plates from these volumes, and majority of advertisements and slips. Abbey 6, Tooley 515.

30 volumes, 12mo (145 x 90mm). 474 aquatints and hand-colored stipple engraved plates, some folding (occasional foxing, offsetting). Original varicolored paper boards with paper labels (most with discoloration to spines and boards, occasional cracking to spines, minor rubbings and bumps to corners, Austria vol. I without World in Miniature advertisement, China without advertisements, Spain and Portugal case separating from text block, Russia vol. I with additional 18-page advertisement, Russia vol.II without List of Plates slip, South Sea Islands vol.I with additional 1-page World in Miniature advertisement, South Sea Islands vol.II binding separating from text block, Hindoostan vol.III folding plates at pp.8,67 mounted and tipped in, Hindoostan vol.V C6 and pl. “Gilder” loose and laid in). Housed in six modern fall-down-back half morocco boxes.
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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