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Lot 145

Sale 5657 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 23, 2021 6:00AM ET
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[Travel & Exploration] [Portugal and Spain] Bradford, Rev. William Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain...

London: Printed for John Booth by William Savage, 1810. First edition. Large folio. 38 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece ("The Monument...To the Memory of Sir John Moore...") and 40 hand-colored aquatint plates, by J. Clark after Bradford; with tissue-guards (foxing and offsetting). Three-quarter brown morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, over marbled paper-covered boards, extremities and spine rubbed; moderate foxing to frontispiece; scattered, mostly light, foxing to plates; scattered smudging in margins of plates and text; edges toned. Abbey, Travel, Volume One, 135 2B; Tooley 107.

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Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal...
(London): Printed by William Savage for John Booth, 1810. First edition. 8 pp. Illustrated with 13 hand-colored aquatint plates, by J. Clark after Bradford; with tissue guards (foxing and offsetting); scattered minor foxing and smudging to plates and text.

"According to Tooley, No. 107, there is an edition where both title-pages carry the date 1810, and where there are minor differences in the punctuation of the main title-page. This might possibly be a reprinted title-page for some copies of the edition, after supplies of the title printed for the parts had been exhausted." (Abbey Travel 135 2B).

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