Vues d'Italie et de Sicile, dessinées d'après nature par A.E. Michallon [...] et lithographiées par MM. Villeneuve, Deroi et Renoux.

Folio: [2]-2 pp., 20 pl. protected by tissue guards (numerous foxing but not touching the plates).

Contemp. half red calf, paper covers, gilt orn. flat spine (rubbed, corners bumped).

First edition. Complete with the 20 fine lithographed plates on India paper figuring the bridge of Narni, Tivoli, Lake Albano, a cloister near Rome, Grottaferrata, the Bay of Naples, etc. Album published posthumously after the drawings of Michallon (1792-1822) who first won the Prix de Rome for landscape painting. Corot was one of his pupils.
Ref. Cremonini - L'Italia nelle vedute e carte geographiche dal 1493 al 1894, 104.