Les cours du nord, ou Mémoires originaux sur les souverains de la Suède et du Danemarck, depuis 1766; traduit de l'Anglais par J. Cohen [....].

BROWN, John

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Paris, A. Bertrand, 1820

3 vol., 8vo: [4]-viii-562, [4]-549-[1 bl.-[4], [4]-425-[1 bl.-1] pp. (some rare spotting).

Contemp. quarter brown sheep, marbled paper on covers, gilt orn. flat spines, black leather title labels, sp. edges. Wide-marginated good copy.

Second edition of the French translation of "The Northern Courts" (1st 1818) by Brown (fl. 1818). Ill. with 2 fold. lithographed views by Engelmann of Christiansborg palace and Stockholm, 2 lithographed portraits by Engelmann of Queen Mathilde and her husband King Christian VII, and 5 engr. portraits by Delvaux: King Gustave III, Baron d'Armfeld, Gustave IV, Charles-Jean and Catherine II of Russia. Bookseller's catalogue in fine of vol. 2.
Ref. BnF. - COPAC.
Prov. Unidentified armorial bookpl.