Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 334

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
TOWNSON, ROBERT. Travels in Hungary, with a Short Account of Vienna in the Year 1793. 16 engraved plates; double-page folding engraved map. [iii]-xviii, [2], 506 pages; lacks half-title. 4to, early 19th-century 1/2 calf, laminated with clear plastic; contents browned, map separating at intersection of creases. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797

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first edition. Townson (1762-1827) was a naturalist; his book contains extensive geological and mineralogical observations and concludes with entomological and botanical appendixes.