Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[CLOWES, GEORGE.] Forty-Six Days in Switzerland and the North of Italy. Wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and 3 folding panoramas; folding engraved map. 102 pages. 8vo, 202x128 mm, original gilt-lettered green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, with ticket, worn, spine darkened, spotting and stains on covers; contents clean, with split between 2 gatherings in middle of volume. Contemporary owner's inscription on half-title; bookplate of W. E. Davidson. London: William Clowes and Sons, 1856

Additional Details

first edition, privately printed. "Pages 58-66 describe the author's travels through the valley of Chamonix"--Meckly 50. Not in Neate or Perret.