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Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph - Voyage Pittoresque Et Historique de L'Espagne: Tome Second (Incomplete)

Title: Voyage Pittoresque Et Historique de L'Espagne: Tome Second (Incomplete)
Description: Paris, L'Imprimerie de Mame, 1813. Hardcover. Olive green library buckram. Dark green title blocks on spine, with gilt lettering. Title page followed by 34 engravings and 50 pp. text. A separate manila folder contains 15 engravings that appear to have been removed from the library binding. A few plates are duplicated. Oversize/folio. Text in French. A collection of beautiful engravings, mostly from Valencia, Andalusia and the Estremadura regions of Spain, showing architectural monuments, plans, and ornamentation as well as building interiors/exteriors, maps, scenery and a few plates of decorative arts. The accompanying text describes each region and the plates. Although the title page states that this is Volume 2, some plates and the text from Volume 1 are included. The book formerly belonged to Winslow Lewis of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. "Winslow Lewis (1770-1850) was a sea captain, engineer, inventor and contractor active in the construction of many American lighthouses during the first half of the nineteenth century." (Wikipedia). Engravings vary from NF to Fair, depending upon the amount of foxing and sunning, although most of those marks are on the page edges and not on the plate images. Some wave/wrinkling to engraving pages. Plates in folio vary as well with large water stains to some corners, foxing to a few, and others that are VG+. Lib. Binding has book plates. Many plates in bound volume have incising marks where neighboring plates have been removed. The text pages have foxing and waving, and some of the plates are wavy/wrinkled as well. Nearly all plates would be suitable for framing, if flattened and if edges were cropped a bit.

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Price: US$ 1000.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 145441

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