LATOUCHE, John.. Travels in Portugal. With Illustrations by The right Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt. Second Edition.. Ward Lock and Tyler. London, 1875.

Price: US$320.69 + shipping

Description: Second edition. Original royal blue cloth gilt, decorated in both gilt and black. All edges gilt. 354pp. 5 steel engravings with tisuue guards. Sl. wear to extremities of boards with sl. spotting to lower board, occ. light foxing o/w a near fine copy of a very scarce item.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

John Latouche [Oswald Crawford]. Travels in Portugal. Ward, Lock, and Tyler, London, 1875.

Price: US$378.41 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The second edition of this illustrated account of an Englishman's travels in Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The second edition of this travelogue from John Latouche, the pseudonym of John Crawford.With five illustrated plates, each protected by the original tissue guard, from T. Sotheran Estcourt. Collated, complete.The author's preface explains that this work is 'nothing more than notes - mental notes, for I travelled without any design of future publications, and kept no single written memorandum of what I did or saw'.From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty of the Edwardian period. Impeccably connected, Pleydell-Bouverie was also the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, and rumoured to be a lover of King Edward VIII. A sparkling figure of fashionable society, her friends included Nancy Mitford, Coco Chanel, Winston Churchill, and Fred Astaire.This work is from the sale of Pleydell-Bouverie"s library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire. She purchased the home in 1940, redesigning the interior and amassing an impressive library, featuring many examples of her own bookbinding. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail. Hinges starting, with boards held to text block by cords only. Internally, binding strained. Pages clean and bright. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Latouche, John. Travels in Portugal. With illustrations by T. Sotheron Estcourt. 2ª ed. Ward, Lock and Tayler, London, 1875.

Price: US$429.94 + shipping

Description: 8º, XVI, 354 p., 5 láms. Buen papel. Medio pergamino, tejuelo, florones, hilos dorados. Sello del anterior propietario. Algunas manchas de óxido. [Ref. C10N323]. Conjunto de artículos publicados en una revista, recogidos en forma de libro, e ilustrados con bonitas láminas con dibujos en tinta china hechos al natural, y posteriormente fotografiados.

Seller: LIBRERIA ANTICUARIA STUDIO, Barcelona, Spain