GUIDES FRANÇAIS, ESPAGNOL ET JAPONAIS DE VOYAGES EN ESPAGNE. - Lot 83

GUIDES FRANÇAIS, ESPAGNOL ET JAPONAIS DE VOYAGES EN ESPAGNE. Anonyme. MADRID or Observations on Spanish customs and habits at the beginning of the 19th century... Paris, chez Pillet ainé, 1825. Two volumes in 1 volume in-8°. Havana half calf, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding) with a small tear at the top cover. 308 pp./306 pp. plus tables. Engravings, vignettes and filled plan of Madrid . The bull fight (p.70 of volume I). Palau, 146562. Fouché-Delbosc 297. Pertus, 29. Joint: FERNANDEZ DE LOS RIOS (A.) Guia de Madrid. Manual del madrileño y del forastero . Madrid, officinas de la illustracion española y americana. 1876. Contiene mas de 150 vistas y otros grabados, 10 planos parciales en negro y tres de Madrid al cromo. In-8°, basane rooted sentence of the time, smooth decorated spine (Spanish binding) 813 pp. and 1 ff. p.243 torn without missing and a detached notebook. Qq.rouss... First edition (Palau, 89667). Description of the Plaza de toros with two illustrations (inside and outside the bullring) pp.578-595 . Seal: ANONYMOUS. Japanese guide (in Chinese) to travel in Europe (Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands). Tokyo (?), circa 1890 small in-4° printed on rice paper. Twelve illustrations (including a double plate of bullfighting in the bullring of Seville) and a filled map of France. Black cardboard binding sewn "à la chinoise". Very rare. This is volume V of a travel book in Europe for the use of literate Japanese who read Chinese at the end of the XIXth century...