Album of antiquarian sketches, early 1800s-1870, contemporary half roan

Lot 251
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Lot 251 | Album of antiquarian sketches, early 1800s-1870, contemporary half roan
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Album of antiquarian sketches of Scotland and Ireland (with a few of England, the Himalayas and Iceland, a trip to Morocco, early 1800s-1870

Folio (415 x 318mm.), comprising circa 80 sketches (mostly pencil) of Scotland and Ireland, 4 watercolours of birds (2 full-page and 2 quarter-page), one or two sketches of England, circa 10 of the Himalayas, and 17 albumen prints and circa 10 sketches of Morocco (1870s), contemporary half roan, some spotting and browning, binding rubbed with significant loss at spine ends
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