2 Rhine albums.

1. Hugo, Victor - Le Rhin. Lettres à un ami. (Liège/Maastricht, Palante; Ploem, 1842). Fol.: [4]-136 pp.; 10 pl. (marg. dampstains). Black cloth (spine broken and part. defective). Rare early publication in issues by the "Presse littéraire", jointly published in Liège and Maastricht, only 1 year after its composition. With lithographs by H. Borremans. Ref. van der Marck p. 122. - 2. Halenza's Rheinisches Album gezeichnet und gestochen von F. Foltz (Mainz, J. Halenza, ca. 1870). Oblong 4to: title, 22 steel engr. (flylvs loose). Gilt titled brown publisher's embossed cloth (inner hinge broken). Nice album with 22 violet tissue-guarded b/w engr., showing sights in the Romantic Rhine River Valley, such as Heidelberg, Bonn, Frankfurt, Koblenz, Bad Ems, Cologne etc.