May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 354

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BARRY, MARTIN. Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 16th-18th of 9th Month (Septr.), 1834. 2 lithographed plates, both mounted India proofs. 40 pages. 8vo, original boards, spine ends worn, narrow vertical dampstain on front cover; plates foxed, text clean. Armorial bookplate and signature of E. Reginald Taylor, F.S.A. (London: H. Teape and Son), [1835]

Additional Details

first edition. Neate B49. Front free endpaper inscribed: "To Mary Richardson with very kind regards, from the Author - Lisburn 9th-of-9th Month 1835."