LOT #92645 |
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Lot of Five Travel and Adventure Books, Including Three Baedeker Guides and a Godfrey Travel Guide,... (Total: 7 Items)
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Lot of Five Travel and Adventure Books, Including Three Baedeker Guides and a Godfrey Travel Guide, including: Edward K. Godfrey. The Island of Nantucket, What It Was and What It Is, Being a Complete Guide to This Noted Resort. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1882. Presumed first edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's limp blue boards. First map repaired on verso with tape. Front hinge cracked. Rear joint splitting. Good. An uncommon book. [and:] K. Baedeker. Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1893. Fifteenth edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's limp red boards. Front hinge cracked. Inked name and address. Good. [and:] Karl Baedeker. Italy - First Part: Northern Italy, Including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna, and Routes Through Switzerland and Austria. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twelfth remodelled edition. Twelvemo. Spine ends chipped. Front hinge starting. Good. [and:] K. Baedeker. Great Britain. Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1906. Sixth edition. Publisher's limp red boards. Front hinge cracked. Rear joint split. First map has closed tear. One map detached and laid in. One inked name and address and one penciled name and address. Good. [and:] John Hunt. The Conquest of Everest. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1954. First edition. Octavo. xx, 300 pages. Photographs. Index. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Light stain to front joint. Near fine.Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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