SAUVAN, Jean Baptiste Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea. London: L. Harrison for Rudolph Ackermann, 1821 [watermarked 1818-1820].

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SAUVAN, Jean Baptiste Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea. London: L. Harrison for Rudolph Ackermann, 1821 [watermarked 1818-1820].

Large 4o (352 x 287 mm). 2pp. Subscribers' list. Title and final leaf with hand-colored aquatint vignettes, hand-colored engraved map, 24 hand-colored aquatint views after Pugin and Glendall by Havell and others. (Some light offsetting.) Dark green morocco gilt, top edge gilt, other uncut (spine evenly faded to brown). Provenance: Charles E. Dunlap (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. A fine wide-margined copy. Abbey Travel 90; Tooley 445.

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