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SMITH, ALBERT. Egyptian Hall, Picadilly. Programme of Mr. Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc [caption title]. 4 pages. 8vo, 211x135 mm, unbound; horizontal crease through center of sheet, soiling in lower portion of last page. [London, 1852?]
Smith's illustrated lecture extravaganza dramatizing his 1851 climb ran for several years and did much to stimulate British interest in Mont Blanc and mountaineering. Farquhar/Cox, pages 4-5. Cf. Neate S92.
with: A Hand-Book of Mr. Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc. 7 full-page wood-engraved illustrations. 36, [20] pages. Oblong 12mo, 118x187 mm, original wrappers, soiled, backstrip darkened and worn; contents clean. (London: W. S. Johnson), nd [but with preliminary ad dated 1858]. Neate S91 (not noting this edition).
