Holcroft Hamburg

Holcroft, Thomas: Travels from Hamburg through Westphalia, Holland and the Netherlands, to Paris, No publisher given 1804

Book Condition: Very Good or better This would appear to be an (unnamed) publisher's series of extracts from the text of a large 2 volume quarto work of 1010pp. . This volume 86pp including an index and directions to the binder, suggesting that it came originally unbound. Now quarter-bound in brown hide on buckram covered boards, gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Minor scuffing to spine ends, else near Fine. Hardback

[SW: Germany]

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PARIS - HOLCROFT, T., Travels from Hamburg, through Westphalia, Holland, and the Netherlands to Paris. London, Richard Philipps, 1804.
* Brunet III,261 - Graesse III,321. - Seltene erste Ausgabe. - Enthält hauptsächlich Holcrofts Bericht über seinen zweijährigen Aufenthalt in Paris. - Die Kupfertafen mit den Ansichten: South view of the old and new Louvre. The mint and the facade of the Louvre. Entrance to the Champs Elisees, and la Place de la Concorde. The Military School and the Church of the Invalides. The Elysian Fields, Distant gardens of the Tuileries, new Bridge quay d'Orsai, and Palace of the Corps Legislatif. View of la Place de la Concorde. The garden and west front of the Tuileries. Garden of the Tuileries. Palace of the Tuileries facing the Place du Carroussel. The Louxembourg with the gardens. View of Paris from the South Boulevard. View of Paris from Mont-Martre.

2 Bde. 4°. Mit 12 (dreiblattgr.) Kupferntaf. u. Textkupfern. XXXV, 468; XVII, 542 Seiten. Halbleinenbände (um 1960) mit Rückentitel. - Englischer Text.- Unbeschnitten. Stellenweise braunfleckig, bzw. gebräunt, Kupfertaf. m. wenigen kl. Einrissen. Bd. 1: letzte 2 Bll. am Innensteg alt m. Papier verstärkt.

[SW: FRANKREICH, Holcroft, Thomas]

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