Live veiling - Lot 1088
[Great Britain]
Tableau de la Grande-Bretagne, de L'Irlande et des possessions Angloises dans les quatre parties du monde.
Paris, H.J.Jansen, An 8me [1800]
€ 300 / 450
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Beschrijving lot
4 vol., 8vo: [8]-449-11-(449-)459-[1], 520-12-(521-)532-[2], 494-48-(195-)502-[1], 373-22-(385-)486-[2]-(375-)384-[2] pp.; 11 pl. (a few marg. tears, table of content split with the largest part after the supplement).
Contemp. quarter calf, mottled paper covers (weak hinges, corners bumped, tr. of use).
Rare 1st ed., complete with 4 folding maps by J.-D. Barbier de Bocage (England, Scotland, Ireland, India), a folding plan of Gibraltar, 3 views incl. Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, Giant's Causeway located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, the 2 portraits engr. by A.J. Hulk of William Pitt (after William Owen) and Charles Jacques Fox (after K.A. Heckel), a folding plate "Combat de boxers à Odiham" and 14 folded tables. The supplements are placed according to the instructions to the binder.
Ref. Barbier IV:634. - Library of Congress.