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LOT 759
SOLD €600,00

[Gardnor. With 32 splendidly handcoloured plates] Views taken on and near the river Rhine,

at Aix la Chapelle, and on the river Maese, by the Rev.nd J. Gardnor. Engraved in Aqua Tinta by the Rev.nd J. Gardnor and Richard Gardnor Jr. London, J. Walter etc., n.d. (1792), 156,(4) p., with engraved title and 32 splendidly handcoloured and gum-heightened plates, contemporary speckled, polished and gilt calf, both boards with gilt border and edges, gilt and ribbed back with morocco letterpiece, small 4to.

Title sl. tanned, plates sl. tanned along edges and else occ. sl. foxed. Purchase ann. (1814) and auction strip to first blank/ flyleaf. Binding with minor defects to corners and joints. In all an attractive copy in the rare, most luxurious version (the Royal Library keeps a copy with uncoloured plates). Abbey, Travel, 214. The first edition appeared in 1788, in folio.

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