HARDY, Joseph. A Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees... with some account of the bathing establishments in that Department of France. London: L.Harrison for R.Ackermann, 1825. 8° (242 x 148mm.). Engraved map (lightly spotted), 24 mounted hand-coloured aquatint plates. Original green cloth, paper label on spine, uncut (small split to upper joint), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION. 'the plates are among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving... The colouring is most delicate, and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite.': Prideaux p.229. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245.
HARDY, Joseph. A Picturesque and Descriptive Tour in the Mountains of the High Pyrenees... with some account of the bathing establishments in that Department of France. London: L.Harrison for R.Ackermann, 1825. 8° (242 x 148mm.). Engraved map (lightly spotted), 24 mounted hand-coloured aquatint plates. Original green cloth, paper label on spine, uncut (small split to upper joint), modern cloth box. FIRST EDITION. 'the plates are among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving... The colouring is most delicate, and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite.': Prideaux p.229. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245.
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