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Title(s)
Historical, military, and picturesque observations on Portugal : illustrated by seventy-five coloured plates, including authentic plans of the sieges and battles fought in the Peninsula during the late war / by George Landmann, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal-Engineers, the same rank in the Spanish Corps of Engineers, with brevet rank of Colonel.
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Published/Created
London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1818.
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Physical Description
2 v. : ill. ; 40 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2009 12
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Engravings by Joseph Jeakes, Joseph Constantine Stadler, John Hill, Daniel Havell, John Ogborne, and James Baily; after George Landmann.
"The title-page claims seventy-five plates including the maps; actually seventy-six were issued, Number 11 (Alcacer do Sal ... from the East, Estramadura) being omitted from the list of plates in Volume II."--Abbey.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 291
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 140
BAC: British Art Center is the Abbey copy. Bound in half calf marbled paper-covered boards. -
Subject Terms
Cadell, T. -- Publisher. | Davies, W. -- Publisher. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1818. | Portugal -- Description and travel. | Portugal -- History. | W. Bulmer and Co. -- Printer.
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