Item #6582 Canadian Scenery Illustrated. W. P. Willis, W. H. Bartlet.
Canadian Scenery Illustrated
Canadian Scenery Illustrated
Canadian Scenery Illustrated
Canadian Scenery Illustrated
Canadian Scenery Illustrated

Canadian Scenery Illustrated

London: George Virtue, 1842. Hardcover. Good. Item #6582

2 volumes. 4to. Pp. 128, without the ads, portrait of Bartlett, vignette t/p, map and 53 engravings; 116, frontis, vignette t/p and 63 engravings. Total of 1 portrait, 2 vig. t/p's, 1 map and 117 engravings with guards, complete. Bound in full straight grained burgundy calf with corals and seashell gilt borders to the front and rear boards, gilt stamped compartments and gilt swirling fleurons on the bands, with lettering stamped in gilt right on the leather to two compartments. Edges of boards rubbed, spine joints heavily rubbed, not broken, boards are on tight and the binding is tight and square. The boards and spines are scratched and scuffed. The text is clean, the plates are age spotted and lightly foxed around the margins but generally clean. The last several plates in volume two with light marginal staining only, but again, over all very good.

Price (CAD): $1,200.00

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