A view of Spain ; comprising a descriptive itinerary, of each province, and a general statistical account of the country... / translated from the French of Alexander de Laborde. In five volumes. ...
Alexander Louis Joseph, comte de Laborde (1773-1842)
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3194545
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates : ill., maps (some fold.), plans ; 8vo (22cm). Imperfect: vols. 2-5 only. Loose inserts: scrap paper page markers (v.5, p.240-1, printed list of stock prices on reverse, and p.273), with corresponding pencil text marking. Provenance: inscribed on each flyleaf "Ashton Mosley 1858" [i.e. Ashton Nicholas Every Mosley (1792-1875), grandfather of Col. Godfrey Mosley (1863-1945), who m. Hilda Crewe in 1918]. Binding: nineteenth-century half vellum, with marbled paper over boards, red spine label, gold lettered: Laborde's View of Spain". Edges sprinkled blue.
Makers and roles
Alexander Louis Joseph, comte de Laborde (1773-1842)