SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[PYRENEES].
A Short Descriptive Account of the Pyrenean Port of Bigorre.

Published
[London: ca. 1790]
References
Not in Abbey; Bobins supplementary list 08/14.
Plates
4
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
[London: ca. 1790]
Ref
5619

Folio, morocco-backed grey-green limp card wrappers, green morocco gilt title label to upper cover, a modern black cloth folder, and slipcase over dark grey-green cloth, title in gilt to spine. Text and platers stubbed into binding. Four hand-coloured plates. Descriptive leaf of text in English and French. MS captions, in an old hand, on verso of plates. Coloured plates in order: 1. Bareges in the Pyrenees. 2. Luz in the Pyrenees. 3. View in the Valley of Bareges. 4. Falls of Gava, in the Pyrenees.