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[Colour Plate Album] [Gothia Canal]

Pittoreskt Sverige. Första serien: Kanalfärden mellan Stockholm och Göteborg. Tjugo lithografierade utsigter efter originalteckningar. Med kort text af Fr. Hedberg. (All published).

Stockholm. Albert Bonniers förlag. 1861. Small Oblong.4:o. Title + (2 pp.) + 47 pp. + (1 p.) + 20 tinted lithographs + 2 folding maps.

Contemporary red half calf. Gilt title at spine and front board. Somewhat worn and rubbed binding. Bumped corners. Lower front hinge starting to crack. Minor soiling in the margins to a few of the first plates and text leaves. Maps browned. One map narrowly cut, one text line missing.

Views of towns and landscapes along the route of Gothia Canal, from Stockholm to Gothenburg, with explanatory text.

Item No: 178