£1,008
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits, of that Ancient Empire. London: Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co., c.1850. 4 volumes in 2, 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, 128 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, tissue-guards, all edges gilt, wear to spine-ends, tips bumped and worn, vignettes on front boards rubbed, wear to volume 1 front joint, variable spotting (stronger to front), damp-staining to lower marginal of last few plates in volume 2