The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain
by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2010
ISBN/ASIN: B003MNG7VS
Description:
Some accounts of the author's travels in Spain. Described in a series of letters, with illustrations, representing moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville.
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