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Bloomsbury Auctions 25th Anniversary Sale
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Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, first edition, list of subscribers, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette and vignette tail-piece on final text leaf, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates and hand-coloured engraved map, short marginal tears to title and frontispiece, repaired tear to final leaf just into vignette, very occasional foxing and light offsetting, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1821 ***A superb copy of a beautiful Ackermann publication. The plates by Sutherland and Havell after A.Pugin and J.Gendall are of a truly exceptional quality. Provenance: Bookplate of E.Peter Jones. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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