Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BARRY, MARTIN. Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 16th--18th of the Month (SEPTR), 1834. 2 uncolored lithographed plates, both mounted India proofs. 40 pages. 8vo, 222x143 mm, original boards, spine chipped, cover corners worn; plate mounts heavily foxed, text clean. Later 19th-century owner's inscription on front free endpaper. (London: H. Teape and Son) [for the Author, 1835]

Additional Details

first edition in book form, privately printed, of a report originally published in the January 1835 issue of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Meckly 14b; Neate B49.