Brooke - Voyage à Naples et en Toscane - 1798

BROOKE, N. Voyage to Naples and Tuscany. With 5 pages on opium 1798. A Paris at Nicolle and Denné. 276 pages . In 8 . Under fine quarter binding full leather with gold tooling on the spine and along the border of the boards. With 2 curious letters (9 and 10) dealing on 8 pages with the benefits and effects of opium that a Turkish traveler revealed to him. 1798. BROOKE, N. Voyage to Naples and Tuscany, before and during the French invasion in Italy. With critical observations on the manners and customs of Italy, details of the terrible explosion of Mount Vesuvius, taken on the spot at midnight, in June 1794, when the beautiful town of Torre del Greco was destroyed by the lava rushing down from the mountain. Condition: binding: small 3 cm crease at the lower hinge otherwise good and solid. Interior: a small tear on the last blank endpaper neatly consolidated, a few very, very rare small foxing spots otherwise a fine copy

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