Lot 348

Trench, Sir Frederick William





Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£750
Description
A lithographic sketch of the North bank of the Thames, from Westminster Bridge to London Bridge, shewing the proposed quay, and some other improvements suggested by Lieut.-Colonel Trench. London: Hurst & Robinson & J. Dickinson, 1825. First edition, oblong folio, folding map and 10 panoramic lithographed plates, (with two plates numbered 3, illustrating alternative proposals for Somerset House), one leaf of text, original brown wrappers with paper label on upper cover, a couple of spots in the margin of plate 2, otherwise a clean copy [Rare; not in Abbey, Scenery]
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire




