Lot N. 47
Jérome Richard (l'Abbé)
Description historique et critique de l'Italie ...
A Dijon: Chez François DesVentes. Et se trouve à Paris: Chez Michel Lambert, 1766, 6 voll.
... ou Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état actuel de son Gouvernement, des Sciences, des Arts, du Commerce, de la Population & de l'Histoire Naturelle In-16° (172x100 mm) [8], CLXIV, [4], 320, [4] p., 1 c. of table folded; [4], VIII, 585, [2] p.; [4], LXXII, 343 p., 1 ch. of table folded; [4], 513, V p.; [4] XXXV, 502, [2] p.; [8], 482, [6] p. Full leather binding with gilt titles on spines. Slight flaws. Hinges in some volumes slightly loose. Red sprayed cuts, gold lips. Blooms, rare stains, lack, without loss of text, in the title and title page of the first volume. First edition of this important travel report "la plus complète qui eut paru jusqu'alors" (D'Ancona) complete with 2 maps of Italy (6)
... ou Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état actuel de son Gouvernement, des Sciences, des Arts, du Commerce, de la Population & de l'Histoire Naturelle In-16° (172x100 mm) [8], CLXIV, [4], 320, [4] p., 1 c. of table folded; [4], VIII, 585, [2] p.; [4], LXXII, 343 p., 1 ch. of table folded; [4], 513, V p.; [4] XXXV, 502, [2] p.; [8], 482, [6] p. Full leather binding with gilt titles on spines. Slight flaws. Hinges in some volumes slightly loose. Red sprayed cuts, gold lips. Blooms, rare stains, lack, without loss of text, in the title and title page of the first volume. First edition of this important travel report "la plus complète qui eut paru jusqu'alors" (D'Ancona) complete with 2 maps of Italy (6)
Ex libris F. Morel Depeisses on the front endpapers. Cartouche C.E. Rappaport Libri rari Roma flyleaf of the first vol. to cover old placement. Pencil annotations on the back endpaper of the first volume. Bibliography: D'Ancona, Saggio 120