Lot n° 171

(Europe, Belgique & Allemagne) - PROUT, Samuel.- Fac similes of sketches made in Flanders and Germany [...]. [London], C. Hullmandel, [1833]. In-f° : [4] pp.; 50 pl. protected by tissue guards (small and clear foxing, mainly on the tissue guards and...

Estimation : 2.500 / 3.000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
the back of the plates). Modern binding : threequarter purple Russian leather, marbled paper boards, flat spine with gilt roll-stamps.
Romantic album with 50 large and nice lithographic picturesques street scenes, with Gothic monuments in the background, in Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp, Liège, Regensburg, Strasbourg, Mainz, Frankfurt, Munich, Pragua, etc. By Prout (Plymouth 1783-1852 London), one of the masters of British landscape watercolorists. # not in Abbey. fl Album de 50 grandes et belles lithographies protégées par des serpentes figurant des scènes de rue, avec des monuments gothiques en arrière-plan, à Bruxelles, Bruges, Munich, Francfort, Ratisbonne, etc. Demi-cuir de Russie prune moderne à coins (pet. claires rouss., surtout sur les serpentes et aux versos des pl.).
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