Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
GEORGE, HEREFORD BROOKE. The Oberland and Its Glaciers explored and illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera. 28 mounted albumen photographs by Ernest Edwards; double-page lithographed map. xii, 243 pages. 4to, 269x216 mm, original gilt-stamped red cloth, spine ends chipped, front joint partly cracked; contents generally clean. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866

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first edition. Neate G13; The Truthful Lens 74. With a signed inscription on the half-title from the American lawyer and statesman Elihu Root to his law partner: "Willard Bartlett In remembrance of some days with ice axe & rope Elihu Root Dec 25/73."