£2,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 589
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847. Volumes 1 & 3 only, first edition, 8vo, half-titles, original purple cloth gilt, publisher's catalogue at the rear of volume 1 with the title dated June 1847 and at the remainder dated October 1847, binder's ticket of Westleys & Clark to volume 1, some rubbing, soiling and fading to cloth, hinges split, cloth to the spine of volume 3 peeling away, two neat ownership signatures to paste-down endpapers (2)