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

297 ● SMITH, ALBERT. The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc. Hand- colored lithograph mounted in 18 sections on linen, folded into original cloth binding with 20-page rule booklet laid in; without the game pieces. Lithograph 432x572 mm, linen backing dampstained but lithograph relatively clean; binding 171x106 mm, rubbed, partly faded, ties lacking; rule booklet 165x104 mm, wrappers lightly soiled, contents clean. London: Published at the Egyptian Hall, Picadilly, [1852?] [2,000/3,000] Scarce children’s game produced as a tie-in to Smith’s show, in which players take turns spinning a numbered top to advance on the board or not, accumulating or losing counters, with the first to reach the summit taking the pot.The rule booklet also contains explanations of the 54 scenes en route from London to Mont Blanc depicted on the board. Farquhar/Cox 11; Meckly 6A; Neate S94. 298 ● (SWITZERLAND.) Poles and Tails; or, English Vagabondism in Switzerland, in the Summer of 1854. By Two of the Vagabonds. 3 folding lithographed plates. 81 pages. 8vo, 187x114 mm, modern tan calf gilt, covers rubbed and slightly discolored; contents clean. Front blank INSCRIBED : “W.Wilson from one of the authors of this tale of vagabondism March 1855.” London: E. Billing & Son, 1855 [400/600] FIRST EDITION , PRIVATELY PRINTED . Listed in Meckly’s revised Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books, but not in Neate or Perret. COPAC locates only the copies at the British Library and National Library of Scotland; OCLC locates another in the mountaineering collection of the University of Colorado at Boulder. 298