[ROMANTIC HARDCOVER BOOKS]. - Lot 17

[ROMANTIC HARDCOVER BOOKS]. BOLDENYI, J. (ed.) and Abbé MOYNE. SET of 2 titles. -BOLDENYI, J. (ed.). Hungary, Ancient and Modern. History, Arts, Literature, and Monuments by a Society of Writers. Paris, H. Lebrun, 1851. 2 parts in one large 8vo volume, (4)-239-(2)-159 pp. on fine paper. Publisher’s gilt cardboard binding, black percaline cold-stamped and adorned with special gilt metal tools, gilt edges (discreet signs of wear on the top cap with the spine slightly detached over 3 cm, foxing). First edition. Rare in the publisher’s gilt cardboard binding. Illustrated with 29 black-engraved plates, an engraved title page, a map of Hungary (with its accompanying table) as a separate insert at the end of the volume, and numerous black woodcut vignettes by Janet-Lange, Beaucé, Breton, and others. A gift inscription dated June 1860 on the upper endpaper. Carteret, III, 98. -MOYNE (Abbé). Italy: A Guide for the Young Traveler. Rouen: Megard, 1858. Large 8vo, 408 pp., 4 black steel engravings, including a frontispiece, bound in pink serpentine. Blue illustrated cardboard binding by the publisher, gilt edges (spine very slightly faded, rare foxing). A fine copy.