St. Helena: a Physical, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Island
first edition, extra-illustrated by the insertion of 12 photographs of views of St. Helena (including Longwood, portrait of William Wilde houses and views) and 1 memoriam card for William Wilde and a sepia watercolour mounted on blank ff. or on verso of plates, also Letter from W.H. Seale, Colonial Secretary & Lieutenant Colonel of the St Helena Local Militia to the Hon. W. Wilde, Chief Justice and Member of Council to attend the exhumation of Napoleon’s body, 3 loose photographs, comprising: Napoleon’s Tomb, House in Jamestown occupied by Wellington & Napoleon and the house of Wilde and Napoleon’s fish pond, 1 memoriam card for William Wilde 2 maps (1 double page), 1 geological section of St. Helena, 10 chromolithographed views, 6 zoological and 32 botanical chromolithograph plates, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates, tissue guards (some torn), some plates and text loose, others working loose, front free endpaper loose, contemporary half calf, rubbed, lacks spine, covered in laminate, 8vo. 1875.
St. Helena: a Physical, Historical, and Topographical Description of the Island
first edition, extra-illustrated by the insertion of 12 photographs of views of St. Helena (including Longwood, portrait of William Wilde houses and views) and 1 memoriam card for William Wilde and a sepia watercolour mounted on blank ff. or on verso of plates, also Letter from W.H. Seale, Colonial Secretary & Lieutenant Colonel of the St Helena Local Militia to the Hon. W. Wilde, Chief Justice and Member of Council to attend the exhumation of Napoleon’s body, 3 loose photographs, comprising: Napoleon’s Tomb, House in Jamestown occupied by Wellington & Napoleon and the house of Wilde and Napoleon’s fish pond, 1 memoriam card for William Wilde 2 maps (1 double page), 1 geological section of St. Helena, 10 chromolithographed views, 6 zoological and 32 botanical chromolithograph plates, 5 uncoloured lithographed plates, tissue guards (some torn), some plates and text loose, others working loose, front free endpaper loose, contemporary half calf, rubbed, lacks spine, covered in laminate, 8vo. 1875.
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