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First English edition. Large 8vo (24 x 17.5 cm), 180 pp, 157 sepia illustrations, one folding map, previous owner's insciption in ink on front pastedown, previous bookseller's label on front pastedown; publisher's maroon cloth, spine gilt lettered; overall a good copy
£100 -
First edition. 8vo, (20 x 14 cm), inscribed by author on title-page, slight foxing to edges, first free endpapers, title page, and pp.143 - 160; publisher's printed orange cloth; overall a good copy.
£150 -
First edition. 2 volumes only (vols I and II only of 4), 4to (25.8 x 20 cm); 2 engraved titles, and 18 engraved plates (one with contemporary hand-colouring), book labels, new endpapers, light wear to extremities, occasional light staining and foxing sometimes heavier, repaired tear to plate V in vol. II; contemporary half calf sometime neatly rebacked, marbled boards, edges sprinkled blue; overall a good set
£250 -
First edition, large folio (65 x 46.5 cm), 16 page descriptive text in original wrappers, 26 fine hand-coloured lithograph plates, including additional title, mounted on card as issued, original red half morocco portfolio, light spotting to title and light discolouration to sky in most plates, overall a very attractive copy of a great rarity.
£25,000 -
Landscape folio (33.5 x 25 cm); hand-coloured lithographed title-page, 36 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all captioned and numbered, paper slightly browned not affecting the plates, some slight staining on the verso, again not affecting the plates; contemporary morocco backed printed pictorial brown boards; overall a very good copy.
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First edition. 8vo, viii, 245 pp., 6 engraved plates, of which 2 folding, modern French red crushed morocco in Jansenist style, raised bands, lettered in gilt with small monogram to foot of spine, broad gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, an excellent example.
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Small landscape album containing 25 lithographed views of Boulogne, each view 13 x 9 cm, manuscript date '1878' to inside cover, ticket of Chartier bookseller, housed within publisher's brown cloth covers lettered in gilt; worn and rubbed; overall an attractive collection of views.
£300 -
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 249 pp., 2 folding tables, inscribed copy, contemporary half calf, marbled sides and edges, joints cracked, spine rubbed, a very good clean copy.
£2,500 -
First edition, 2 parts and supplement in 1 vol; folio (45 x 32.5 cm); hand-coloured double-page map by G. Guerra and 59 engraved hand-coloured plates after Pietro Fabris, the plates edged in black with grey washed margins including two engraved titles; contemporary red morocco, richly gilt, covers with gilt dentelles. NB. lacks first leaf of text in vol. I, else an excellent example.
£110,000 -
Third Dutch edition, large paper copy, 2 volumes in 2 parts in 4 volumes, folio (59 x 37 cm); Dutch text; 4 letterpress titles printed in red and black, 4 engraved titles in 3rd state, 4 engraved portraits (one of which double-page), engraved plate of coat-of-arms, double-page genealogical table, 136 engraved maps, plans, bird's-eye views, or plates, together with the additional single-page plate of the monument to Charles Emmanuel II on the Voie Sarde, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials (occasional very light and insignificant browning, a few plates with some scattered light spotting confined to extreme margins). Contemporary Dutch panelled mottled calf, richly gilt, spine with raised bands forming 9 compartments, morocco labels in second and third, gilt edges.
£30,000