Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 264

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[LONGMAN, WILLIAM; and TROWER, HENRY.] Journal of Six Weeks' Adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont, and on the Italian Lakes. Folding engraved map. [8], 123, [1] pages. Half-title inscribed and signed by longman * LONGMAN, WILLIAM. A Lecture on Switzerland . . . (Printed for Private Circulation.) viii, 94 pages. Half-title inscribed: "From the Author." Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 196x122 mm, original cloth, first spine darkened, chipped at top and bottom, second binding shaken; occasional minor soiling in the first work, dark stain in outer margin of opening leaves in the second work. London: Spottiswoode and Co., 1856; July 1857

Additional Details

first editions. Meckly 114, 115; Neate L46 (first work only). Both Meckly and Neate call for a plate in the first work, possibly in error.