Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CALIFORNIA.) Marryat, Francis S. Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal. 8 chromolithographic plates, text illustrations. x, [2], 443, 24 pages. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf; minor foxing and wear, a few pencil notes in margins, one ad clipped from advertising page 9 in rear of volume; early signature on page ix. London, 1855

Additional Details

first and best edition, with color plates not found in the New York edition. Cowan 1933, page 416 ("an interesting description of sights and an account of experiences during the early gold period"); Graff 2685; Howes M299 ("aa"); Sabin 44695; Zamorano Eighty 52 ("a collector's item . . . plates being among the finest of early Californian subjects").