Lot 72

St Petersburg
Mornay

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
£938
Description
[A Picture of St. Petersburg, represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City....] [London: Edward Orme, 1815], 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Mornay, (image size 340 x 240mm), no text or title page, plates carefully trimmed to edge of image, mounted on beige ?silk with red cotton edges, in an album with other mounted chromolithographs from the Illustrated London News, half morocco, rubbed
Footnote
Note: 20 hand-coloured plates as called for by Abbey, Travel, 206.
