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LOT 954
SOLD €170,00

[Netherlands, Belgium & France. Ireland] A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant,

and part of France, made in the Autumn of 1789, by Samuel Ireland (...). The second edition, with additions; and an entire new set of copper-plates in aqua-tinta, from drawings made on the spot. London, printed for T. & L. Egerton etc.., 1796, 2 vols., XX,217; IV,211 p., with 2 etched titles w. diff. oval aquatint views (in vol. 2 cut sl. short at lower margin, affecting the address), 46 aquatint plates printed in brown (mainly very fine views, incl. 1 view not present in the binder's index), 2 etched plates and 5 woodcut illustrations, contemp. chequered leather sides, spines (and outer corners) neatly renewed in old style, ribbed and gilt, edges and endpapers marbled, 4to.

Both vols. occas. trifle foxed and some offsetting from turn-ins at the beginning and end. Good copy. Apart from the views in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, the work also contains views of Harwich and of Dover, the starting and final point of Ireland's tour.

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