SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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BOISGELIN DE KERDU, Pierre Marie Louis de.
Travels through Denmark and Sweden...

Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu (1758 1816) was a French nobleman and a member of the Knights of Malta. Nice views of the Baltic.

Published
London: for Wilkie and Robinson and for George Robinson, 1810.
References
Abbey Travel 247, Bobins 401.
Plates
13
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
London: for Wilkie and Robinson and for George Robinson, 1810.
Ref
5277

2 vols, 4to, 13 aquatint plates, most after Dr. Charles Parry, engraved by Merigot. Contemporary diced Russia, double gilt filet and blind-stamped borders to boards, spine with raised bands, gilt, re-backed. Gilt dentelles. Hinges and extremities rubbed. Bookplates of 'Keane Fitzgerald' & 'Norman R. Bobins' to front pastedowns. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. Copenhagen. 2. View of the Observatory at Copenhagen. 3. View of Elsineur, with the Castle of Kronberg. Volume 2. 4. Frontispiecez. View of Stockholm. 5. Runic Monuments [...] near Ingelstadt. 6. Bird's eye view of the Cataract of Trolhaetta. 7. Mine at Fahlun. 8. Part of the Cataract of Elfscarleby, seen from above and st some distance. 9. Ancient Upsal with the Monuments of the Kings of Sweden. 10. The Castle of Upsala. 11. View on the River Torneo beyond the Polar Circle. Method of traveling in Boats. 12. View near upper Torneo. 13. Part of the Town of Torneo...