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Description:
Travel Engravings, Late 18th-Early 19th Century, Two Volumes.
Two oblong octavo volumes without title pages, likely Dutch imprints, containing about 175 engravings of sights of interest to tourists in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Norway, Turkey, India, Malta, Sardinia, Palestine, Armenia, Tonga, the Arctic; captions mostly in French, but place names in many languages, including Russian, 7 3/4 x 5 in. (2)
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
Armenia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malta, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Poland, Sardinia, Scotland, Spain, Tonga, Turkey, United KingdomJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
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