[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce, London: 1828, "Sketches of Portuguese Life..." w/20 fine, hand-colored aquatints

[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 old ornately gilt spine and black morocco label laid down. 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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