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HARDY, Joseph. A Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees... with some account of the bathing establishments in that Department of France. London: L.Harrison for R.Ackermann, 1825.
8° (240 x 145mm.). Engraved map (spotted), 24 mounted hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary French red half morocco gilt by SIMIER. Provenance: John Rhodes (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'the plates are among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving... The colouring is most delicate, and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite.': Prideaux p.229. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245.
8° (240 x 145mm.). Engraved map (spotted), 24 mounted hand-coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary French red half morocco gilt by SIMIER. Provenance: John Rhodes (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. 'the plates are among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving... The colouring is most delicate, and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite.': Prideaux p.229. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245.