Klubbat för:

5000 SEK

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6 000-8 000 SEK

Description

LONDON AND MIDDLESEX. (5). BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE. London and Middlesex, or, an Historical, Commercial, & descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: including Sketches of its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the most remarkable Places in the Above County. I-IV in five volumes. London 1810-16.

8:o (210x130 mm.). 1 printed illustrated fold-out " The Thames Tunnel", 147 engraved plates (all, with a total of 154 illustrations, some foxing, text partly discoloured from plates).
Contemporary lilac full leather, somewhat worn, gilt borders, faded gilt spines. Some foxing. Bookplate of Charles Mason White. 5 volumes.

Brayley wrote the text for vol. I-II, Joseph Nightingale for vol. III:1-2, and J. Norris Brewer for vol. IV.
These volumes are part of the "Beauties of England and Wales", originally published in 25 volumes.
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Auktionsnummer:

6097

Date:

2015-12-15