George Newenham Wright: 'The Shores and Islands of the Medit...

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George Newenham Wright: 'The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn from nature by Sir Grenville Temple, Bart., W. L. Leitch, Esq., Major Irton and Lieut. Allen, R.E. With an analysis of the Mediterranean and description of the plates, by the Rev. G. N. Wright.', London, Fisher, [1840], added engraved vignette title page, double page engraved map + 63 engraved plates, being views of Gibraltar, Palermo, Malta, Corfu, Tunis, Algiers, Taormina, Rhodes, Amalfi, Etna, Salerno, Genoa etc etc, 4to, contemporary half morocco gilt, together with a bound volume of assorted mid 19th Century American sheet music, some with lithograph and coloured lithograph pictorial title pages, folio, contemporary half calf worn; plus 'The Suffolk Garland', Ipswich, John Raw, 1848, 404pp, old half calf very worn (3)

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Tue 9th Jun 2026 10am (Lots 9001 to 9486)