LALANDE, Joseph Jérôme le Français de (1732--1807)
Voyage d'un françois en Italie, fait dans les années 1765 & 1766. Contenant l'histoire & les anecdotes les plus singulieres de l'Italie, & sa descriptions; les mœurs, les usages, le gouvernement, le commerce, la littérature, les arts, l'histoire naturelle, & les antiquités; avec des jugemens sur les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, & architecture, & les plans de toutes les grandes villes d'Italie. Tome ...
A Venise et se trouve a Paris chez Desaint, libraire, 1769.
8 vols + atlas ; 16.8 cm. (12º)
I: [4], xlviii, 576 p.
II: [4], 640 p.
III: [4], 655, [1] p.
IV: [4], 576 p.
V: [4], 463, [1] p.
VI: [4], 439, [1] p.
VII: [4], 475, [1] p.
VIII: [4], 588 p.
Atlas: 23 pl. (1 fold.) ; (4º)

Anonymous. By Joseph Jérôme Le François de Lalande. The enlarged second edition of 1786 names the author as 'M. de La Lande' and have title: Voyage en Italie. The 23 numbered plates called for in the title but not present in the Soane copy are sometimes found folded and bound in, or as a separate quarto atlas volume.

Copy Notes Without the plates. Volume I inscribed in ink on half-title par Monsr. La lande. Bought for 16s., 28 March 1784. (Account Book, 1781--6). - A separate copy of the plates only with the armorial bookplate of William Downes, was purchased in May 1944 (but not identified as belonging to this work) by A.T. Bolton for the curator's library.

Binding C18th mottled calf, blind-rule boards, gilt-tooled spines, red and black morocco spine-labels.

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