Travel and History
£875
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Hunter, William Travels through France, Turkey , and Hungary to Vienna in 1792. London: J. White, 1803. 8vo., 2 volumes, portrait and large folding map, contemporary calf, covers and spine rubbed, some cracking to joints, occasional spotting; Pardoe, Miss The city of the Magyar, or Hungary... London: George Virtue, 1840. 8vo., 3 volumes, 3 frontispieces, 5 plates (one folding), lacking one additional frontispiece, some internal soiling and slight rubbing to covers; Eustace, John Chetwode A classical tour through Italy. London: J. Mawman, 1815. 8vo., 4 volumes, contemporary calf, spines and boards rubbed, some spines broken; Chatterton, Lady Home sketches and foreign recollections. London: Saunders and Otley, 1841. 8vo., 3 frontispieces, 9 lithographed plates; Hume, David The history of England. London: T. Cadell, 1790. 8v0., 8 volumes, 30 engraved portraits, contemporary tree calf, occasional worming and soiling, some cracking to joints and rubbing to covers, a few endpapers lacking; Townsend, Joseph A journey through Spain... London: C. Dilly, 1792. 8vo., 3 volumes, engraved frontispiece, map and other plates, rebacked calf with contemporary spines, some soiling and cracking to spines and boards, occasional spotting; Gifford, John A residence in France... London: T.N. Longman, 1797. Second edition, 8vo., 2 volumes, bookplate of Lady Charlotte Murray, daughter of the second Duke of Atholl, to paste-down endpapers, contemporary tree calf, spine of first volume repaired with strip of soft leather, covers and spines rubbed, some slight internal soiling; and 7 others (32)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire