LABORDE, Alexandre Louis Joseph, comte de, (1773--1842)
Description d'un pavé en mosaïque découvert dans l'ancienne ville d'Italica, aujourd'hui le village de Santiponce près de Séville; suivie de recherches sur la peinture en mosaïque chez les anciens, et les monuments en ce genre qui n'ont point encore été publiés. Par Alexandre Laborde.
A Paris (Place), de l'imprimerie de P. Didot l'aíné,, an 1802.
[4], 103 p., add. hand-col. aquat. t.-pl., XXII pl. (18 hand-col.) : [9] engr. illus. (2 hand-col.) ; 72.6 cm. (1°)

Originally intended as part of Laborde's Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, 1806--1820 (q.v.), this fragment was prepared for publication while the author was still in Spain with Lucien Bonaparte's embassy in 1800--1804. A Spanish translation was published in 1806 (q.v.).

Copy Notes Copy 1: Printed red label of Priestley & Weale, No. 5 High Street, Bloomsbury pasted in on front cover. Inscribed in pencil on front free-endpaper, recto fine Copy/ 10. 10. 0 and in ink on verso no 16 sur cent soixante exemplairs. Bookseller's hieroglyphs in pencil on rear endpapers. Bought from Priestley & Weale for 10 gns., 24 May 1826. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E.6.9).
Copy 2: 73.0 cm.

Binding Copy 1: C19th half green hairsheep morocco, green paste-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine.
Copy 2: C19th half green hairsheep morocco, maroon paper boards, gilt-tooled spine.

Reference Number 4170

Additional Names Priestley and Weale; Santiponce - Italica - Spain - (Extinct city), Early works to 1800