THE RARE FIRST EDITION

ROGISSART, ALEXANDRE DE.

Les Delices de l'Italie, ou Description exacte de ce pays, de ses Principales Villes, et de toutes les raretez, qu'il contient. 3 vols.

Leide, Pierre van de Aa, 1706.

8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to extremities, boards with scratches with some loss of leather. Internally with a few small worm-tracts but generally a good copy.
Vol. 1: (16), 275 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved half-title and 43 plates (out of 45)
Vol. 2: 277-554 pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 49 plates (out of 55).
Vol. 3: 555-718, (62), 9, (1) pp. + Engraved half-title, engraved title-page and 46 plates (out of 50).

First edition of this rare and important travel guide to Italy - the first in what became a travel guide series in small format. Despite its popularity and the numerous editions in which the work was published not much is know about Alexandre de Rogissart

Order-nr.: 60965