Emma ROBERTS, Robert ELLIOTT
Vues pittoresques de l'Inde, de la Chine, et des bords de la mer RougeViews in India, China, and on the Shores of the Red Sea
H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson |London s. d. [1835]|21.2 x 26.2 cm|Steel engraving (19th c.)|Relié
First French edition, with a colour frontispiece, two engraved title pages from the English edition, and sixty-one full-page plates under tissue guards, two volumes bound in one.
Full green glazed calf, covers blind-stamped with gilt-tooled borders, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, blind-stamped motifs between the bands, gilt fillets on the headcaps, title and gilt-stamped ex-dono inscription ("offert à Madame Ramaeckers") on the spine, gilt-tooled board edges, blind-stamped border on the pastedowns, pink paper pastedowns, gilt edges, a fine Romantic binding attributable to Thouvenin jeune. Binding sunned and lightly rubbed with...
€500