Live auction - Lot 683
[Low Countries - Rhine]
A family tour through South Holland up the Rhine, and across the Netherlands to Ostend.
London, J. Murray, 1831
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
12mo: viii-295-[1] pp. (old dampstain in top margin).
Cont. dark green half calf, gilt spine on raised bands, red morocco label, marbled boards, edges and endpapers (sl. rubbed). Good copy.
Very rare original edition. Ill. with engr. front., folding map, and 9 plates by Lieut. Colonel (Robert) Batty (1789-1848), Barrow’s (1808-1898) brother-in-law (“his first attempts on steel”): Antwerp (Cathedral), Rotterdam (St. Lawrence), The Hague (City Hall), Leiden (St. Pancras), Amsterdam (The Waag, Amstel), Bingen, Ghent (St. Nicholas), Bruges (City Hall). Ref. BL. - KBR (Brussels). - Not in Anet, BnF, Cabrio. Prov. Robert J. Hathurst (bookpl.).