Item #51-7265 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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one. William Bradford, Miss Semple, engraver W. Bartlett.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.
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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.

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 1909... [bound with] The Costume of the Netherlands Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings after Drawings from Nature by Miss Semple. First editions. 3 volumes in one.

London: John Booth, 1812 and R. Ackermann. 1817. Small folio. 25.5 x 36cm. Contemporary green straight grain morocco decorated in gilt, with raised bands to spine with gilt lettering and tooling; rebacked...

3 volumes in 1. 24; [180]; [90], [4] pp. Sketches of the Country with 54 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Clark after drawings by Bradford. Costume of the Netherlands with 30 colored engravings. ...
. Two color-plate books bound together, with short introductory retrospect on the War in the Peninsula. Sketches of the Country was one of the first works to provide an eyewitness account of the Napoleonic Wars, including scenic views of Portugal and Spain. Bradford was Chaplain to the British Army and his drawings chart the army's course through Portugal and Northern Spain before retreating to Corunna in January of 1809. Miss Semple's Costume of the Netherlands may be found interesting at this time when British valour has made that part of the continent familiar to the Public" (Foreword)...References for Sketches of the Country: Abbey Travel 135 2B; Tooley 107; Colas 421; Palau 34386; Prideaux p. 328; Brunet 1-1197; Lipperheide 1213.....

References for Costume of the Netherlands: OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
65927329; Bobins II, 430; Colas 2710; Hiler 793; Lipperheide 958, Prideaux 351; Not in Abbey. Item #51-7265

Price: $2,250.00

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