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Photo, Travel, Military, Nat. History, Maps
5:00 AM PT - Mar 25th, 2009

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
Uk Auction

 

       

Lot 273 save

Repton (Humphry) Observations on the Theory and Pr

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Repton (Humphry) Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening,
first edition, stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait by W.Holl after S.Shelley (spotted), 11 hand-coloured aquatint plates (9 with overlays, 1 folding), 13 engraved plates (mostly aquatint, some tinted, 3 with overlays, 1 double-page) and 3 engraved plans (1 hand-coloured), 11 aquatint illustrations in text, 2 with overlays, wood-engraved illustrations, portrait spotted and offset on title, some other light offsetting and spotting but generally very clean, folding plate with two short tears, engraved bookplate of Samuel Gardiner, hinges reinforced, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, spine ruled and titled in gilt with five raised bands, a little rubbed, [Abbey Scenery 390; Berlin Kat. 3431], 4to, J.Taylor, 1803.

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