May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LEAR, EDWARD. Illustrated Excursions in Italy. 55 tinted lithographed plates; 2 hand-colored lithographed maps; 2 leaves of engraved music. xii, 144; 45 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, 375x270 mm, original gilt-blocked green cloth, minor wear, short repaired crack at bottom of Volume 2 front joint; light to moderate foxing on most plates, few plates loose, scattered foxing on text leaves, contemporary owner's signature on half-titles. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1846

Additional Details

first edition. The first volume deals with the Abruzzi provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the second with the Papal States. Abbey Travel 172 (first volume only); Pine-Coffin 843/6.