433. Sauvan (Jean Baptiste Balthazar) Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea, first edition , list of subscribers, hand-coloured aquatint title-vignette and vignette tail-piece on final text leaf, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates and hand-coloured engraved map, short marginal tears to title and frontispiece, repaired tear to final leaf just into vignette, very occasional foxing and light offsetting, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., [Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445], 4to, R.Ackermann, 1821
est. £2000 – £3000
A superb copy of a beautiful Ackermann publication.
The plates by Sutherland and Havell after A.Pugin and J.Gendall are of a truly exceptional quality.
Provenance: Bookplate of E.Peter Jones