SERRES, DOMINIC and JOHN THOMAS SERRES Liber Nauticus, and instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing. London: Edward Orme 1805-1806. 2 parts in one, folio, 456 x 324mm. (18 x 12 3/4in.), new black half morocco gilt over contemporary marbled boards, pictorial printed cartouche label on upper cover, boards rubbed, some foxing, mostly in second part, some offsetting in first part, a few plates at end with slight marginal dampstain, small nicks to edges of plates 18 and 22, a few plate numerals cropped. 2 letterpress title-pages (the first with correction pastedown S on first line), 2 Address leaves (the first engraved, the second letterpress with a border of engraved flags), list of plates leaf and 41 numbered plates, aquatints and etchings, no. 17 handcolored, nos. 2, 3 and 16 printed in sepia, the rest in black; plates in first part by T. Swaine Clark & Harraden and Swain & Harraden, second part by J. Clarke & J. Hamble all after D. and J.T. Serres; captions in second part in English and French. Abbey Life 345. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate.
SERRES, DOMINIC and JOHN THOMAS SERRES Liber Nauticus, and instructor in the Art of Marine Drawing. London: Edward Orme 1805-1806. 2 parts in one, folio, 456 x 324mm. (18 x 12 3/4in.), new black half morocco gilt over contemporary marbled boards, pictorial printed cartouche label on upper cover, boards rubbed, some foxing, mostly in second part, some offsetting in first part, a few plates at end with slight marginal dampstain, small nicks to edges of plates 18 and 22, a few plate numerals cropped. 2 letterpress title-pages (the first with correction pastedown S on first line), 2 Address leaves (the first engraved, the second letterpress with a border of engraved flags), list of plates leaf and 41 numbered plates, aquatints and etchings, no. 17 handcolored, nos. 2, 3 and 16 printed in sepia, the rest in black; plates in first part by T. Swaine Clark & Harraden and Swain & Harraden, second part by J. Clarke & J. Hamble all after D. and J.T. Serres; captions in second part in English and French. Abbey Life 345. Provenance : Harrison D. Horblit, bookplate.
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