Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1867?1939), illustrator. ?? [ENGELBACH, Lewis]. Naples and the Campagna Felice. London: R. Ackermann, 1815. 8vo (241 x 146 mm). 16 hand-colored aquatints including frontispiece and engraved title, 9 of which are by Rowlandson, 2 hand-colored engraved maps (one folding). (Few occasional tiny stains near margins, 3 tiny wormholes at margins to folding map, some offsetting to text from plates). Later burgundy morocco with triple gilt fillet border, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, double gilt fillet borders in compartments, gilt?lettering in 2, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt stamp?signed by Zaehnsdorf (bookplate removal, else fine); slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM with p.212 mis-numbered. First published serially between 1809 and 1813. AN ATTRACTIVE COPY. Abbey, Travel 166; Prideaux pp. 335, 377, 385; Tooley 419.