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Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786.
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SAINT-NON, Jean Claude Richard, l'abbé de (1727-1791)
Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786.
The Newstead Abbey copy of a masterpiece of 18th-century French publishing: ‘one of the most ambitious and successful of travel books’ (Gordon N. Ray). First edition, first issue, with plates 87 and 88 in volume 3 numbered 15 and 24 bis. The present copy is complete with the unnumbered plate of priapic bronzes, which was apparently suppressed by the King of Naples and is often missing, the double-page plate of the Theodosian Table, and the 14 plates of medallions.
This survey of the topography and archaeology of southern Italy was mainly written by Vivant-Denon, with the introduction by Chamfort and the scientific chapters by Dolomieu, Faujas de Saint-Fond, Romé de L'Isle and d'Ennery. It includes one of the first descriptions of the ruins of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Paestum. Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V, 55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930; Reynaud 482-484; Soultrait 18th century 164.
4 volumes bound in 5, folio (514 x 320mm). Half-titles. 5 engraved title vignettes by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Pierre-Philippe Choffard and Varin, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Duplessi-Berteaux, engraved dedication, numerous head- and tail-pieces, including 25 hand-coloured subjects from Greek vases, 376 engraved plates, maps and plans, many plates printed 2 per sheet, some double-page, one aquatinted, one near-full page engraving in the text of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by Claude-Augustin Duflos, Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non, et al. after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert, Saint-Non, et al., and 14 plates of medallions (occasional light browning and light scattered spotting). Early 19th-century diced russia gilt with arms to sides and stamped ‘Newstead Abbey’ in gilt (spines slightly worn, bindings rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Wildman of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1787-1859; arms to sides).
Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Clousier, 1781-1786.
The Newstead Abbey copy of a masterpiece of 18th-century French publishing: ‘one of the most ambitious and successful of travel books’ (Gordon N. Ray). First edition, first issue, with plates 87 and 88 in volume 3 numbered 15 and 24 bis. The present copy is complete with the unnumbered plate of priapic bronzes, which was apparently suppressed by the King of Naples and is often missing, the double-page plate of the Theodosian Table, and the 14 plates of medallions.
This survey of the topography and archaeology of southern Italy was mainly written by Vivant-Denon, with the introduction by Chamfort and the scientific chapters by Dolomieu, Faujas de Saint-Fond, Romé de L'Isle and d'Ennery. It includes one of the first descriptions of the ruins of Herculaneum, Pompeii and Paestum. Berlin Kat. 1904; Blackmer 1473; Brunet V, 55-56; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-De Ricci 928-930; Reynaud 482-484; Soultrait 18th century 164.
4 volumes bound in 5, folio (514 x 320mm). Half-titles. 5 engraved title vignettes by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Pierre-Philippe Choffard and Varin, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Duplessi-Berteaux, engraved dedication, numerous head- and tail-pieces, including 25 hand-coloured subjects from Greek vases, 376 engraved plates, maps and plans, many plates printed 2 per sheet, some double-page, one aquatinted, one near-full page engraving in the text of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, by Claude-Augustin Duflos, Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non, et al. after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert, Saint-Non, et al., and 14 plates of medallions (occasional light browning and light scattered spotting). Early 19th-century diced russia gilt with arms to sides and stamped ‘Newstead Abbey’ in gilt (spines slightly worn, bindings rubbed). Provenance: Thomas Wildman of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1787-1859; arms to sides).
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