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Nouvelle Collection de Quarante-deux Vues de Saint-Petersbourg et de ses Environs, Dessinées d' après nature par divers Artistes ... A l' Usage des Etrangers. St. Petersburg: "Se trouve au Salon Littéraire Français, chez Alexandre Pluchart," 1826. Oblong 4° (342 x 495mm). Title within woodcut border, folding hand-coloured engraved plan of St. Petersburg with key leaf, table, 40 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (of 42 on the list, lacking plate numbers 3, 18 and 41, but with an extra lithograph at the end not on the list, title lightly spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting). Contemporary calf-backed boards with printed paper label on upper cover (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate).
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Nouvelle Collection de Quarante-deux Vues de Saint-Petersbourg et de ses Environs, Dessinées d' après nature par divers Artistes ... A l' Usage des Etrangers. St. Petersburg: "Se trouve au Salon Littéraire Français, chez Alexandre Pluchart," 1826. Oblong 4° (342 x 495mm). Title within woodcut border, folding hand-coloured engraved plan of St. Petersburg with key leaf, table, 40 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (of 42 on the list, lacking plate numbers 3, 18 and 41, but with an extra lithograph at the end not on the list, title lightly spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting). Contemporary calf-backed boards with printed paper label on upper cover (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate).

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Nouvelle Collection de Quarante-deux Vues de Saint-Petersbourg et de ses Environs, Dessinées d' après nature par divers Artistes ... A l' Usage des Etrangers. St. Petersburg: "Se trouve au Salon Littéraire Français, chez Alexandre Pluchart," 1826. Oblong 4° (342 x 495mm). Title within woodcut border, folding hand-coloured engraved plan of St. Petersburg with key leaf, table, 40 hand-coloured lithographed plates only (of 42 on the list, lacking plate numbers 3, 18 and 41, but with an extra lithograph at the end not on the list, title lightly spotted, occasional light mainly marginal spotting). Contemporary calf-backed boards with printed paper label on upper cover (rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Mark Dineley (armorial bookplate).
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