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Lot 18:
HAUTEFORT (Charles Victor d’)
COUP-D’OEIL sur Lisbonne et Madrid en 1814. Suivi d’un Mémoire politique concernant la Constitution promulguée par les Cortés à Cadiz, et d’une Notice sur l’etat moderne des Sciences mathématiques et physiques en Espagne. Paris: Chez Delaunay, 1820.
[6], 440 pp.; 205 mm.
This work was highly praised by Balbi, who stated that “Hautefort had the rare talent of describing Lisbon better after a two-week stay than other travellers did after having lived there for a long time” (cf. Bernardes Branco, 548). Hautefort served in Aragon and Catalonia under the orders of the Duke of Albufera in 1811. Hautefort’s itinerary described in the work passes through Lisbon, Pegões, Estremoz, Elvas, and then heads to Spain via Badajoz, Madrid and Zaragoza, among others. Very rare.
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