Manuscript album -- Visse (Sebastian): Album de l'Equateur, oblong folio (350 x 530mm.), [(?) Guayaquil, Ecuador, circa 1850], calligraphic title, folding chalk drawing with pencil overlay, and 15 mounted watercolours, contemporary red morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, blind and gilt oval panels, the initials 'E.M.' on upper cover, 6 section spine, gilt, watered silk doublures.

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Manuscript album -- Visse (Sebastian): Album de l'Equateur, oblong folio (350 x 530mm.), [(?) Guayaquil, Ecuador, circa 1850], calligraphic title, folding chalk drawing with pencil overlay, and 15 mounted watercolours, contemporary red morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, blind and gilt oval panels, the initials 'E.M.' on upper cover, 6 section spine, gilt, watered silk doublures.

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Two of the watercolours are of churches in Guayaquil, the others are of active and inactive volcanoes.

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