Leilão Bidspirit | NEALE (Adam). LETTERS from Portugal

NEALE (Adam). LETTERS from Portugal and Spain. London. 1809 - NEALE (Adam) LETTERS from Portugal and Spain . Comprising an account of the armies under their Excellencies Sir Arthur Wellesley and Sir John Moore from the Landing of the troops in Mondego bay to the Battle at Corunna. London: Printed for Richard Philips, 1809. XVI, 348, 116 pp., 1 mapa, 12 gravs.: il.; 280 mm. Encadernação inetira de pele da época; corte das folhas pintado com o mesmo motivo das folhas de guarda; acidez. Uma das mais raras obras da bibliografia conhecida como ”estrangeiros sobre Portugal”. As gravuras compreendem: mapa do itinerário das tropas, Battle of Vimeira, Moorish Castle at Torres Vedras, Distant View of Mafra and the Montains of Cintra, Castle of Punhete on the banks of the Tagus, Bridge over the River Nissa amid the Montain of the Sierra de St. Miguel, The Pass of Villa Velha on the Tagus, Bridge Over the Coa River near Almeida, Roman Bridge at Salamanca, Pass in the Sierra of Sevadon near Molina Seca, Bridge near Constantine, The City of Lugo, Battle of Corunna. ¶ Duarte Sousa, II, 420