£2,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 644
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle , & Rivington, 1891. First UK edition, first impression with publisher's catalogue dated October 1890, frontispiece and 78 (of 79) plates, original pictorial red cloth gilt, occasional light spotting, shelf lean, lower hinge cracked, some fading and rubbing to covers, ownership signature to free-endpaper; [Idem] Five Weeks in a Balloon. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First UK edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, hinges split, spine detached along lower joint, some internal and external soiling, signature to paste-down endpaper (2)