Batty Lieutenant Colonel (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/unclipped price; decorative end papers; 208 clean, unmarked pages. 6 Etchings from Original Drawings of Lieutenant-Colonel Batty (illustrator).

London, John Murry, 1831, in-12°, 16 x 10 cm, 295 pp with a folding map and 10 steel engravings, publisher's cased binding with a new cloth back. Interesting travel book with a large chapter on Antwerp, Amsterdam, Liège, Brussels, Ghent and Bruges. In an epilogue the author bemoans the destiny of the Southern Netherlands which have fallen under the worst of all tyrannies; the tyranny of the mob (epilogue written in 1831, the voyage was made in 1828).…