The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I
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Lot 87
HOLDEN, John Watkins (1844 – 1917). A Wizard’s Wanderings f...
Estimate: $300 - $400
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HOLDEN, John Watkins (1844 ? 1917). A Wizard?s Wanderings from China to Peru. London: Dean & Son, 1886. Original pictorial stiff wrappers. Portrait frontispiece and several intertextual illustrations. 8vo. [1, ad], [1, blank], xvi, [1]-170, [8, ads]. Spine perished, wrappers worn, chipped, soiled, toned, with several tears, binding shaken. Still, a good example of this book, rarely found in its original unsophisticated wrappers. Uncommon in any binding. Holden appeared before Queen Victoria at Balmoral, as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales.
