Charles Paul LANDON, Jean-Baptiste Benoit BARJAUD,... Lot 97

Charles Paul LANDON, Jean-Baptiste Benoit BARJAUD, Description de Londres et de ses édifices..., Paris, Landon, 1810 1 vol. in-8°: viiip. including false-title and title, 1 enhanced folding map, 239p., 50 pl., 4p. "Indication of the numbers and letters of the London map". Contemporary blue boards, red title page, full margins in very good condition. The London counterpart to the Parisian publication, Description de Paris et de ses édifices, this work is intended as a pocket guide to London's main tourist destinations. It's interesting to note that, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, overseas tourism was finding its audience!