Lot 376
Ch. E. Whitehead, The camp-fires of the Everglades. Edinburgh 1891.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
376
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Charles E Whitehead
Whitehead, Charles E: The camp-fires of the Everglades or wild sports in the south. Edinburgh: David Douglas 1891. 25,7 x 17,2 cm. With a frontispiece and 15 further plates and vignettes in the text. X pp., 1 leaf, 288 pp. Green linen. With gold-embossed cover illustration, title on spine and spine decoration. Gold-edged top.
(The cover is scuffed and bumped. Untrimmed.)
All the illustrations are by Poore, Frenzeny, Deming and Sheppard. Otis A. Mygatt photographed the leaping fish and Wycliffe Taylor painted the manatee. The vignettes are by the author. Ex libris ‘Jonathan E. Backhouse September, 1898’ on the inside cover.
(The cover is scuffed and bumped. Untrimmed.)
All the illustrations are by Poore, Frenzeny, Deming and Sheppard. Otis A. Mygatt photographed the leaping fish and Wycliffe Taylor painted the manatee. The vignettes are by the author. Ex libris ‘Jonathan E. Backhouse September, 1898’ on the inside cover.