Lot N. 77
Jean de Burigny Levesque
Histoire generale de Sicile ...
A La Haye: chez Isaac Beauregard et Pierre Gosse junior et Comp., 1745, 2 voll.
... dans laquelle on verra toutes les differentes revolutions de cette isle depuis le tems où elle a commencé à etre habitée, jusq'à la dernière Paix entre le Maison de France, & la Maison d'Autriche In-4º (257x210 mm) [14], 511, [1] p.; [8], 454, [10] p. Title page in red and black with woodcut frieze. Woodcut friezes and initials, engraved head. The 2 large maps of Sicily are missing. Contemporary full leather bindings with gilt titles on the spines and rich friezes with gilt floral motifs, marbled plates with embossed frame. Red cuts. Signs of use. Scattered redness and foxing, overall a good copy. First edition of the history of Sicily (2)
... dans laquelle on verra toutes les differentes revolutions de cette isle depuis le tems où elle a commencé à etre habitée, jusq'à la dernière Paix entre le Maison de France, & la Maison d'Autriche In-4º (257x210 mm) [14], 511, [1] p.; [8], 454, [10] p. Title page in red and black with woodcut frieze. Woodcut friezes and initials, engraved head. The 2 large maps of Sicily are missing. Contemporary full leather bindings with gilt titles on the spines and rich friezes with gilt floral motifs, marbled plates with embossed frame. Red cuts. Signs of use. Scattered redness and foxing, overall a good copy. First edition of the history of Sicily (2)
Stamp on title pages. Bibliography: Mira I, 139
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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