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• Author/Creator:Beaumont, Albanis, 1755-1812, author, illustrator.
  
• Title:Select views of the antiquities and harbours in the south of France : with topographical and historical descriptions / by the author of The Rhaetian Alps &c. &c.
  
• Publication:London : Printed by T. Bensley, for W. Faden, geographer to His Majesty, and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Charing Cross; and J. Edwards, Pall Mall, 1794.
  
• Physical Description:[2], 56 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 44 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2014 37 Copy 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2014 37 Copy 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2014 36 Copy 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A 2014 36 Copy 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2014 36 copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Plates are uncolored. Bound with: Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c.
  BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2014 36 copy 2 bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco. Plates are before aquatints and before letters. Armorial bookplate: Joseph Neeld. Bound with: Travels through the Maritime Alps, from Italy to Lyons, across the Col de Tende, by the way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, &c.
  BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2014 37 copy 1 bound in later marbled boards. Plates are hand-colored.
  BAC: British Art Center Folio A 2014 37 copy 2 bound in contemporary gilt-tooled green morocco. Plates (hand-colored) before aquatint and before letters. Captions supplied in manuscript by a contemporary hand.
  
• Notes:Aquatints by Cornelis Apostool. and S. Alken; after A.B. (Albanis Beaumont)
  Added engraved title page: Select views in the south of France ...
  Includes index.
  
• Variant and related titles:Select views in the south of France
  
• Format:Book
• Contents:(Engraved title page) -- Harbour of Antibes -- Toulon -- Antiquity of St Remi -- Harbour & City of Marseilles -- Canal of Orgon -- Entrance of the Bay of Toulon -- Temple of Caius & Lucius Caesar or Maison Carrée -- Colossaeum or Ampitheatre at Nismes -- (Five carvings) -- Turris Magna or Tourmagne -- Pont du Gard -- Triumphal Arch at Orane in Daupiny -- Pyramid near Vienna in Dauphiny -- Plan of Antibes -- Plan of the Harbour and road of Toulon.
  
• References:Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 51
  
• Subjects:Harbors--France.
  France, Southern--Description and travel.
  France, Souther,--Antiquities.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1794.
  Neeld, Joseph--Bookplate.
  Cambridge University Library--Stamp.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--1794.
  Aquatints--Hand-colored--1794.
  Etchings--1794.
  Maps.
  Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
  
• Also listed under:Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844, engraver.
  Alken, Samuel, 1756-1815, engraver.
  Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760-1835, printer.
  Faden, William, 1749-1836, publisher.