The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc.

£6,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

To the rear wrapper the publisher Joseph Myers Co. of Leadenhall Street, London, advertises a “List of Drawing-Room Toys” which can be obtained wholesale from their premises, and which are available retail “at all the principal booksellers and toy repositories in the United Kingdom”. At the top of the list is “Mr. Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc in Miniature”.

• Binding: Hardcover

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