ROUTLEDGE, Scoresby - Lot 143

ROUTLEDGE, Scoresby The Mystery of Easter Island. The Story of an Expedition. London, printed for the author by Hazel, Watson and Viney, [1919]. In-8 (230 x 150 mm) of XXIV, 404 pp. 2 plates in heliogravure (including the frontispiece portrait and a figure of the Easter Island monoliths included in the pagination), 134 illustrations on plates and 11 maps. Green illustrated gilt percale, smooth spine with title (publisher's binding). First edition, self-published. The work covers information on its cultural and ethnographic problems, richly illustrated. Richly illustrated with photographic reproductions, it is probably the oldest photographic survey undertaken on Easter Island. Also included is information on places encountered along the expedition's route: the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda, etc. Brown stain at the foot at the beginning of the volume.