[Rarebooks] Portuguese life w/20 hand colored plates. London: 1826

[Kenneth Karmiole]

SKETCHES OF PORTUGUESE LIFE, MANNERS, COSTUME AND CHARACTER. Illustrated by Twenty Coloured Plates. By A. P. B. G. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. 1826. 8vo. xxv,(3),364pp. With the half-title. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored aquatints and 1 uncolored plate of engraved music (21 plates in all). 19th century tree calf, finely rebacked with ornately gilt spine and black morocco label. Front hinge a bit rubbed, but a very sound copy of a scarce book.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

De Moraes. Vol. 2 p. 264 ("it is a much searched for book"). Abbey TRAVEL #141. Tooley #453.

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