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Lot 72
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
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Nov 13, 2020
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Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
[ENGELBACH, Lewis]. -- ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator. Naples and the Campagna Felice. London: R. Ackermann, 1815.
8vo (238 x 148 mm). 16 hand-colored etchings with aquatint (including frontispiece engraved title vignette and plan), 2 hand-colored engraved maps (one folding). (One plate disbound, slight off-setting from plates to text.) Contemporary blind-tooled tan calf gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt, marbled edges (joints starting, minor rubbing or scuffing). Provenance: HCB (engraved bookplate); Coningsby Disraeli (1867-1936), British Conservative politician (bookplate); Jean Warriston Johnston (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM with p.212 mis-numbered 112 and numerous illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. First published serially between 1809 and 1813. Abbey Travel 166; Tooley 419.