Béarn - Pyrenees - Lot 99

Béarn - Pyrenees COSTELLO (Louisa Stuart) Béarn and the Pyrenees: a legendary tour to the country of Henri Quatre. By Louisa Stuart Costello. With numerous illustrations. In two volumes. London, Bentley, 1844. 2 volumes in-8: XI, 428pp, frontispiece hors texte, 18 vignettes in text / VII, 391pp, 39pp (catalog, frontispiece hors texte, 14 vignettes in text). Foxing to frontispieces. Stamp of the "Los Angeles County Library", with cancellation stamp. The drawings, engraved on wood or lithographic stone by Thomas Gilks, are by Miss STUART COSTELLO, Dudley COSTELLO, Mme Francisque-MICHEL, etc. Modern green cloth (boards and spine of publisher's percaline cover with cold decoration remounted on modern binding). (Beard 868 (to Stuart))(Bilbao II, 467 (to Costello)).