Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

283 ● [CLOWES, GEORGE.] Forty-Six Days in Switzerland and the North of Italy. Wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and 3 folding panoramas; folding engraved map. 102 pages. 8vo, 202x128 mm, original gilt-lettered green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, with ticket, worn, spine darkened, spotting and stains on covers; contents clean, with split between 2 gatherings in middle of volume. Contemporary owner’s inscription on half-title; bookplate of W. E. Davidson. London:William Clowes and Sons, 1856 [300/500] FIRST EDITION , PRIVATELY PRINTED . “Pages 58-66 describe the author’s travels through the valley of Chamonix”—Meckly 50. Not in Neate or Perret. 284 ● COLEMAN, EDMUND THOMAS. Scenes from the Snow-Fields; being, Illustrations of the Upper Ice World of Mont Blanc from Sketches made on the Spot in the Years 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858. 12 chromolithographed plates with 19 subjects byVincent Brooks after paintings by Coleman. viii, 47 pages. Folio, 548x373 mm, original cloth, rebacked with morocco, cover corners worn through, few stains on front cover, endpapers renewed; varying foxing on text leaves, dampstain along fore edge of plates, repaired clean tear in outer margin of plate 1, marginal foxing on last several plates apart from heavy overall foxing on plate 11. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859 [4,000/6,000] FIRST EDITION . ”One of the rarest and most valuable of all mountaineering books. Coleman, an original A. C. member, was one of the earliest painters of the High Alps . . . He ascended Mont Blanc twice and gives an account of a typical ascent”—Neate C92. Abbey Travel 68; Friedman, Color Printing in England 177; Meckly 52. 284 283 TRAVEL & GEOGRAPHY, continued