The First English Guide to the Escorial
A Description of the Royal Palace and Monastery of St. Laurence, called the Escurial; and of the Chapel Royal of the Pantheon … Translated from the Spanish of Frey Francisco de los Santos by George Thompson.
London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for S. Hooper at Caesar's Head, in the Strand, 1760.
Price: $3,500.00
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With 13 plates (9 folding), including engraved coat of arms of dedicatee on verso of errata in Part I and engraved coat of arms on dedication leaf in Part II. xxxvii, [1, blank], 299, [1], xi, [1, blank], 60 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. Twentieth-century quarter morocco and cloth. Some traces of soot in margins. Fine. ESTC T31699. Provenance: General Theological Seminary (bookplates and blindstamps).
Item #372681
