Lot 213
France.- Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, first edition, R. Ackermann, 1821.
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
France.- Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, first edition, list of subscribers, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette, cul-de-lampe and 24 plates by Sutherland and Havell after Pugin and Gendall, hand-coloured map, some light offsetting and occasional foxing, modern red half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case, [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1821.
⁂ A lovely copy. Pugin himself is listed as a subscriber and ordered 6 copies.
Description
France.- Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, first edition, list of subscribers, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette, cul-de-lampe and 24 plates by Sutherland and Havell after Pugin and Gendall, hand-coloured map, some light offsetting and occasional foxing, modern red half morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case, [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1821.
⁂ A lovely copy. Pugin himself is listed as a subscriber and ordered 6 copies.
