Maximilien Misson - Nouveau voyage d'Italie

Rare edition and superb illustrated volume of 35 splendid plates, some folding. This work belongs to the great tradition of European travel narratives devoted to Italy, a country that since the Renaissance has been a privileged destination for travelers, artists, scholars, clergymen and antiquities enthusiasts - The work does not merely recount the author's personal impressions, but also aims to provide future travelers with a set of practical, historical, geographical, artistic and cultural information designed to facilitate their discovery of the peninsula - The title itself thus combines two complementary dimensions, that of the narrative and that of the guide, since the traveler's experience becomes a source of information for those who wish to travel through Italy themselves - Maximilien Misson - Nouveau voyage d'Italie, with a memoir containing useful advice to those who would undertake the same journey - 1702 - Tome II - Henri Van Bulderen - T2. 356 Pages. Good condition of the binding, the work in its full period brown calf leather, wear from use, some minor defects on covers and spine, missing headpieces, hinges and corners worn, speckled edges, spine with raised bands ornamented, gilded lettering and volume numbering on morocco pieces - Good interior condition, browning, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a fine vignette, fourth edition, corrected and enlarged, work enriched with a frontispiece and 35 plates, some folding, endpapers marbled in reasonable condition, a pleasing copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -

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