SWINBURNE, Henry (1743--1803)
[Travels in the Two Sicilies. French]
Voyages dans les deux Siciles, de M. Henri Swinburne, dans les années 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780, traduits de l'Anglois par Mademoiselle de Keralio.
A Paris (Place), chez Théophile Barrois le jeune, libraire,, 1785.
xl, 394, [2] p. ; 20 cm. (8°)

A translation of vol.I only of Swinburne's Travels in the Two Sicilies (q.v.), first published in London in two volumes in 1783 and 1785. Another French edition by Didot, Paris, 1785--1787 was published together with four additional volumes including corrections and additions by Monsieur de la Borde, i.e. Jean Benjamin de Laborde (1734--94).

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane / 1805, with several passages underlined or marked in the margins.

Binding C18th mottled calf, blind-rule borders, gilt-tooled spine with a pineapple motif.

Reference Number 3400

Additional Names Guinement de Kéralio, Louise Félicité (1758--1821); Robert, Louise-Félicité Guinement de Kéralio