Sunday, June 29, 2014

1907 CASTLES AND CHATEAUX OF OLD NAVARRE AND THE BASQUE PROVINCES BY FRANCIS MILTOUN ILLUSTRATED BY BLANCHE MCMANUS - FINE BINDING

1907 FIRST EDITION

CASTLES AND CHATEAUX OF OLD NAVARRE
AND THE BASQUE PROVINCES
BY FRANCIS MILTOUN

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PAINTINGS MADE ON THE SPOT
BY BLANCHE MCMANUS

*** RARE ANTIQUE 1ST EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ CLASSIC TRAVEL ~ BASQUE COUNTRY ~ SPAIN ~ FEUDAL FRANCE ~ THE PYRENEES ***

Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1907.

• First Edition - title page and copyright dates match - only first impression listed on copyright page
• measures about 8'' x 5.75''
• beautiful decorative cloth fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt, blue and white stamping
• top edge gilt, otherwise deckle edges
• pictorial endpapers printed in red and gray
• illustrated with eight colored plates by Blanche McManus including frontispiece
• frontispiece and color plates have captioned tissue-guards printed in red
• also illustrated with numerous full-page glossy monochrome plates, plus decorations on text pages





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