Lot N. 127
Charles de Brosses
Lettres historiques et critiques sur l'Italie ...
A Paris: Chez Ponthieu, An VII [1798/1799], 3 vols.
... Avec des notes relating to the current situation in Italy, and the raisonnee list of tableaux and other monuments here ont ete apportes a Paris, de Milan, de Rome, de Venise, etc.
In-8° (198x128 mm) VIII, 415 p.; [4], 455 p.; [4], 400 p. Binding in mz. leather, with titles on gussets on spine. Peelings and signs of use on the plates and especially on the backs. Yellow cuts. Interior in excellent condition.
First original edition of the epistolary account (3)
Bibliography: D'Ancona, Saggio, 36: "Ediz. mutila e piena di errori, fatta da Sèrieys, e sconfessata dagli eredi dell'a."; Fossati-Bellani I 438