May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 330

Price Realized: $ 188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. Travels through France and Italy . . . With a Particular Description of the Town, Territory, and Climate of Nice. [4], 372; [4], 296 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf gilt with morocco lettering pieces, top of spines chipped, joints cracked or starting; contents generally clean, upper outer corner torn off front free endpapers. 19th-century bookplate of Robinson's Circulating Library, Whitehaven. London: R. Baldwin, 1766

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first edition. "Though rather less scathing than Sharp, Smollett was one of the more severe critics of Italy"--Pine-Coffin 763/3. Rothschild 1921.