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° TRAVEL: Hentzner, Paul. Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Translated by Horace, Late Earl of Orford, first edition, 11 engraved plates, 6 tinted, including the frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth, near contemporary brown gull calf, black morocco lettering piece, London, Edward Jeffrey, 1797, 8vo. Sold with George Lipscomb’s ‘A Journey into Cornwall’, 1799, and Edmund Butcher’s ‘An Excursion From Sidmouth to Chester’, 1805, and T.H. Williams’ ‘Picturesque Excursions in Devonshire and Cornwall’, 1804, and [Richard Fenton’s] ‘A Tour in Quest of Genealogy’, 1811, and Priscilla Wakefield’s ‘A Family Tour Through the British Empire’, 1814 (6). £50-80 Condition: Hentzner: the hinted plates all have marginal damp-staining, some offsetting, upper hinge weakened, illegible name in ink on front pastedown and inscription in a different hand (1881); Lipsombe: lacking blanks, endpapers replaced, upper margin of title and preface leaf have been cut, no textual loss, browning throughout; Butcher- light spotting, internally neat and clean, upper hinge very fragile, illegible contemporary name on initial blank. Sold for £260