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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Inghilterra - Viaggi

English travel album, 1800

Estimate

€ 350 - 500

Sold

€ 704

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Album of the century. XIX. In 2nd. With 49 watercolors of different sizes, from 76 x 44 to 180 x 123 mm, on 24 cards, each illustration with a caption indicating the place handwritten in English, binding in blue Moroccan half, within a gusset on the spine imprinted in gold "Scrap Book "and friezes, some slight halo, small scratches, slight defects.

Specialist Notes

Fascinating nineteenth-century album illustrating a trip to Italy: from the Ligurian coasts to Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, up to Venice and Padua, and then Terni, Narni, Lake Trasimeno, Albano, Rome, but also views of the Gulf of Naples, Ischia and Capri.