Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS. Group of 4 volumes. Various sizes, original cloth, varying wear. first editions. Neate F71, F65, F72, F67. London, 1869-1920

Additional Details

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan, including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. 5 plates, including color frontispiece; 3 folding maps. Spine ends nicked, joints partly cracked; contents clean. Tipped to the half-title is an 1874 cutting from the London Times (letter to the editor from A. W. Moore relating to the ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz and difficulties of climbing in the Caucasus). Bookplate of Lee Lawrence Stopple. 1869.

Hannibal Once More. 3 plates; 3 maps. Fore edges and preliminaries foxed, free endpapers browned. Bookplate of Lord Donoughmore. 1914.

Unto the Hills. Spine faded, covers blistered; title heavily foxed, light foxing elsewhere. 1914. With a cordial 3 1/2-page ALS from Freshfield to "My dear Mrs. Eddy" dated Forest Row, 7 May 1921; holograph envelope; and Freshfield's tipped-in calling card.

The Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure. 19 plates with 21 subjects; 2 maps. Gilt spine lettering dulled; contents clean. 1920.