Live auction - Lot 538
[Italy]
Les délices de l'Italie, contenant une description exacte du païs, des principales villes, de toutes les antiquitez, & de toutes les raretez qui s'y trouvent. Ouvrage enrichi d'un très-grand nombre de figures en taille-douce.
Amsterdam, P. Morlier "et se vend à Aire, chez Boubert de Corbeville", 1743
Hammer price: €
800
€ 800 / 1.000
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Lot description
4 vol., 12mo: front.-[16]-334, front.-[4]-359, front.-[4]-302, front.-[4]-266-[30] pp.; 153 pl. (engr. title of vol. I cut and pasted on front flyleaf, marg. damp stains in vol. I and III, one large to the 2 last ff. of vol. II, soiling and staining, p. 243 of vol. IV more soiled with marg. tear strengthened, some foxing, red staining on pp. 338-339 of vol. II, tears - mostly marg. - repaired or strengthened, right margins of front. and title of vol. IV repaired, some pl. cut short).
Contemp. calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red spr. edges (rubbed, joints of vol. I-II-III part. split, some heads and/or tails renewed, head of vol. I def., sm. loss to lower tails of vol. I and II).
Reprint of the augmented edition of Paris, 1707 (1st 1706). Illustrated with 4 new frontispieces and 153 plates, most folding, representing city views, monuments, maps and plans, etc. Cancels on title with the mention "et se vend à Aire, chez Boubert de Corbeville".
Ref. Quérard II:230. - Barbier I:872 (1707 ed.). - Brunet IV:1354 (1706 ed.). - Not in Cohen.
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