Asta: 348 / Rare Books del 17/18. novembre 2008 ad Amburgo Lot 621

Frank Marryat - Mountains Molehills..., 1855


621
Frank Marryat
Mountains Molehills..., 1855
Stima:
€ 500 / $ 535
Risultato:
€ 480 / $ 513

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Marryat, F., Mountains and molehills or recollections of a burnt journal. With 8 lithogr. plates in colours and 18 woodcuts in the text. London, Longman et al. 1855. Contemp. half calf with label in colours. 8vo. X pp., 1 l., 443 pp.
Sabin 44695. - Howes M 299. - Cowan S. 416. - Graff 2685. - First edition of the field report from the Rocky Mountains and the Californian gold regions, another edition was published in New York that very same year. - "An interesting description of sights and an account of experiences during the early gold period" (Cowan). - Margins slightly browned, endpapers sligthly foxed. Binding slightly scraped and bumped. Inside clean copy.




621
Frank Marryat
Mountains Molehills..., 1855
Stima:
€ 500 / $ 535
Risultato:
€ 480 / $ 513

( commissione inclusa)