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2 volumes bound in 1 Vol 1 -The Beauties of the Bosphorus and Vol 2 - The Danube, its History, Scenery, and Topography. Half-Leather Binding, marbled with brown leather spine and leather fore edge corners, gilt title and decoration to spine, brick red beeswax to edges, green end papers. Leather spine is rubbed and is cracked along seam at top, marbled cover is peeling in places and marked. top edge lightly scratched. Crease to free end paper, fox spotting mostly confined to edges and backs of plates, and free endpapers. There is no date on Vol 1 but believed to be perhaps c 1840 to 1844. It is not a first edition as it has an appendix with 5 additional plates of Sebatipol and Galipoli. 172pp compared to 164pp in first edition published in 1838. It is not however the 1854 or 1874 editions as these were published under the title "Picturesque Europe". The pretty views are engraved after William Henry Bartlett (1809- 54). All original 88 plates (which includes title page and frontispiece) are present. There is also no date on Vol 2 but is believed to also be c 1844. (first edition was 19842). 236 pp including 6 page appendix. This volume has wide margins with vignette title page, frontispiece portrait, map, 78 full page steel engravings, woodcut engravings in text by W. H. Bartlett.This is a heavy / oversized item so may incur higher postage rates. Further details and images are available on request. Seller Inventory # 193
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