24th Jun, 2015 10:00 GMT/BST
Sold for £900
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
Front free endpaper creased. Final plate with single vertical crease. Damp foxing/spotting to text pages (see images). Binding worn, fragments of spine label under hole in re-back (see image). Binding cracked and breaking. Collation; Hand coloured title leaf, hand-coloured dedication leaf, list of plates leaf, 20 pages of English text, French printed title leaf, list of plates (French), 21 pages of French text, 40 plates [ie., [4], [2], 20, [4], 21 [1], plates. Bound as broadsheet.
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