Jun 14, 2016 - Sale 2419

Sale 2419 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH. The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster. 2 volumes. Engraved portrait of William Vincent, 1 plan, and 81 hand-colored aquatint plates after Pugin and others. Folio, rebound in brown calf gilt retaining original covers of handsome contemporary calf decoratively blindstamped and with Greek key borders in gilt and turn-ins, moderately rubbed; all edges trimmed and gilt, scattered foxing, heavy to several text leaves, plates generally quite clean, Vol. 1 lacks half-title. first edition, second issue. Abbey, Scenery 213. London: L.R. Ackermann, 1812