Live auction - Lot 648
[Belgium]
Vues de la Hollande et de la Belgique, dessinées par W.H. Bartlett et accompagnées d'observations historiques et topographiques par le professeur N.G. Van Kampen. [Traduit par I. de Cazes].
London, G. Virtue, post 1830
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: iv-204 pp. (a few foxing stains on text pp., more important, mostly marginal, foxing on plates).
Quarter red calf (discoloured, corners sl. bumped & rubbed), giltruled covers, elaborately gilt Romantic tools on spine (joints split.). Good copy.
Very nice romantic work illustrated by W.H. Bartlett (1809-1854): title and 61 steel engravings, depicting sites and monuments, with captions in English, French and Dutch. 39 pls concern Belgian and 22 Dutch cities. With a folding map at the end. Ref. Thieme-Becker II, p. 554.