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Bellasis, George Hutchins
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- Views of Saint Helena. London: John Tyler, 1815
- Paper, ink, leather
Oblong folio (18 3/4 x 13 in.; 476 x 330 mm). 6 hand-colored aquatint plates by Robert Havell after Bellasis, each with adjacent sheet of descriptive letterpress text; some repair to title page, some foxing. Later half green morocco over cloth boards preserving original brown wrappers, title printed within an etruscan border, marbled endpapers; some repairs to front wrapper.
Literature
Abbey Travel I, 309; Tooley 87
Catalogue Note
Earliest views of St. Helena recorded in Abbey, published shortly before Napoleon's arrival.