Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HAWES, BENJAMIN, Sir. A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, made during the Summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows. Lithographed frontispiece table of comparative mountain heights; folding lithographed plate reproducing certificate of ascent. 35 pages. 8vo, 244x189 mm, contemporary 1/4 leather, rebacked, covers soiled with handwritten title in ink on front, endpapers conspicuously renewed; small stain and later 19th-century signature on title, pencil note on verso, foxing in lower margin of some leaves and on folding plate. London: Arthur Taylor for Benjamin Hawes, Junior, 1828

Additional Details

first edition. Meckly 89; Neate H55 (noting variants, with some copies including a plate of Saussure's ascent not present here). See also lot 224.