£3,500
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1820. First edition, large folio (57.6 x 41.6cm), contemporary half calf (front board gilt-lettered 'Charleton' and with gilt calf title-label 'Rome' to centre), letterpress title-page, etched panorama of Rome on 4 folding sheets, 24 sepia aquatint plates, descriptive text-leaf to each plate, tissue-guards, backstrip perished, panorama with faint spotting and offsetting in places and first sheet with faint crease across one corner, plates faintly offset onto text-leaves through tissue-guards [Abbey Travel 179]
Note: Rare. The work seems often to have been broken up for its spectacular plates, here all present and in excellent condition.
Provenance: Charleton House, Fife.