Jun 19, 2008 - Sale 2150

Sale 2150 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(NAPOLEONIC WARS.) Bradford, Henry. Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume in Portugal and Spain, made during the Campaign, and on the Route, of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809. 55 hand-colored aquatint plates (some watermarked 1824). English and French text. Folio, 369x258 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine ends and joints worn; some text leaves bound out of order, occasional offsetting from plates onto facing pages, including frontispiece onto title, fore-edge reinforced on one plate and 2 text leaves. Cf. Abbey Travel 135. London: John Booth, circa 1824