Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

MARIA AMALIA. – Ritchie, Leitch. Travelling Sketches on the Rhine and in Belgium and Holland.

With 26 steel-engraved plates after drawings by Clarkson Stanfield. IV, (4), 356 pp. 8vo. Red full morocco with gilt-tooled royal supralibros on both boards. Edges gilt (bound by F. Westley, Friar Street). – London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833.

„Heath’s Picturesque Annual“. Copy from the estate of Queen Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily (1782–1866), wife of Louis-Philippe of Orléans with her gilt-tooled royal supralibros, monogrammed „MA“ and headed by a crown. Additional stamp „Bibliothèque de la Reine, Palais Royal“ on flyleaf, repeated frontispiece verso. – Corners somewhat rubbed. Clean and complete copy. – Best.-Nr. 25536