Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(MORMONS.) Ollivant, Joseph Earle. A Breeze from the Great Salt Lake; or New Zealand to New York by the New Mail Route. Folding map. 8vo, modern buckram, with original gilt pictorial cloth covers laid down, and original backstrip mounted to flyleaf; early owner's inked monogram stamp on title page, library stamp on rear pastedown. With [8] leaves of undated publisher's ads. London, 1871

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More than half of this curious work is devoted to Utah and the Mormons, although it also covers the transcontinental railroad. Flake 5990; Howes O73; Sabin 57226.