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France.- [Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar)] Viage Pintoresco por las Orillas del Sena, desde Paris hasta el Mar, translated by J. J. de Mora, first edition in Spanish, hand-coloured engraved map, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette & tail-piece and 24 superb hand-coloured aquatint plates after A. Pugin and J.Gendall, light foxing to text but plates very clean and bright, contemporary half calf, gilt-stamped red morocco label on upper cover, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [cf. Abbey, Travel 90 & Tooley 445, English edition of 1821], folio, R.Ackermann, 1826.

⁂ Scarce Spanish edition of one of Ackermann's finest publications, with magnificent views along the river Seine.

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France.- Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Viage Pintoresco por las Orillas del Sena, desde Paris hasta el Mar, first edition in Spanish, hand-coloured map and 24 hand-coloured aquatints, R.Ackermann, 1826.  

Hammer Price: £950

Description

France.- [Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar)] Viage Pintoresco por las Orillas del Sena, desde Paris hasta el Mar, translated by J. J. de Mora, first edition in Spanish, hand-coloured engraved map, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette & tail-piece and 24 superb hand-coloured aquatint plates after A. Pugin and J.Gendall, light foxing to text but plates very clean and bright, contemporary half calf, gilt-stamped red morocco label on upper cover, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [cf. Abbey, Travel 90 & Tooley 445, English edition of 1821], folio, R.Ackermann, 1826.

⁂ Scarce Spanish edition of one of Ackermann's finest publications, with magnificent views along the river Seine.

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