Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOSWELL, JAMES. An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Folding engraved map. xxi, [3], 382 pages, including half-title. 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine attractively gilt with ornamental tooling and red morocco lettering piece, short crack in rear joint; short clean tear in map unobtrusively repaired with cloth on verso, several leaves foxed in middle of volume; 1/4 morocco folding case. Herbert L. Carlebach morocco booklabel. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in London, 1768

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first edition. First state of the map, D2r, and E2r; second state of Z3r. Gaskell (Foulis) 473; Rothschild 442.