Dec 05, 2013 - Sale 2334

Sale 2334 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
STEVENSON, ROBERT. An Account of the Bell Rock Light-House, including the Details of the Erection and Peculiar Structure of that Edifice. To which is prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of the Northern Light-Houses. 24 engraved plates, including engraved additional title, frontispiece, and portrait of Stevenson. xix, [1], 533, [3] pages, including final leaf with binder's directions and errata. 4to, 323x252 mm, contemporary panelled calf gilt, crudely rebacked with cloth tape, covers brittle and detached; varying foxing and offsetting on plates, frontispiece hinged to loose front cover, heavily offsetting onto title, scattered foxing in text, bookplate removed. Edinburgh, 1824

Additional Details

first edition. Front flyleaf inscribed: "To Richard Ellison Esq. from the Author."