BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL GUIDE TO ITALY

MISSON, FRANCOIS MAXIMILIEN.

Voyage d'Italie de Monsieur Misson, avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le même voyage. Cinquième édition, plus ample et plus correcte que les précédentes, enrichie de nouvelles figures... 4 vols.

Utrech, Guillaume van Water & Jacques van Poolsum, 1722.

8vo. Uniformly bound in 4 magnificent contemporary full calf Cambridge-style bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Gilt frames to boards and blind-tooled ornamentation to edges of boards. Boards with wormtracts, primarily affecting vol. IV. Small wormtract effecting frist half of vol. III. An overall nice set. (46), 339, (20) pp. + 32 folded plates (including frontispiece); 356, (24) + 39 engraved plates; 414, (19) pp. + 7 plates. (6), 347, (7) pp. + 1 

Fourth edition of this important and influential travel-guide to Italy. Misson travelled through Italy during 1687 and 1688, and in 1691 published the Nouveau voyage d'ltalie, which was to be the standard travel guide to Italy for the following fifty years.

Order-nr.: 60547