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Lot 129
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$750
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Lot Description
BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768.
8vo (195 x 125 mm). Half-title, engraved vignette on title-page, D2, E2 and Z3 are cancellans, with final blank; engraved folding map (short tear to fold). Contemporary calf (neatly rebacked preserving old spine label and endpapers). Provenance: Abel E. Berland (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, of the work which secured Boswell's place in London's literary and political circles, with the map in the first state. ESTC T26157; Gaskell 473; Pottle 24; Rothschild 442.
Property from the Annette Perlman Trust