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Les delices 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 tres-grand nombre de figures en taille-douce. Tome premier.-[quatrieme]
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1707 Rogissa
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogissart, Alexandre de.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Italy.
- Italy--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1707.
- Leather bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 4 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1707.
- Notes:
- Title vignettes.
- Includes index.
- All vols. have added engraved t.p.
- By sieurs de Rogissart and abbé Havard. Cf. Preface.
- First published in Leyden, 1706.
- Contains numerous folded engraved plates; plates are after Bertelli, Rubens, Boschini, Coronelli, etc.; a single engraver identified as Magdeleine Horthemels (later Louise-M. Cochin).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in brown leather with gold and red design on ridged spine.
- Athenaeum copy: v. 1 exhibited: "Samuel Breck (1771-1862): Books From the Library of a Philadelphia Francophile," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2013-14.
- Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck 2nd presentation bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Includes lengthy list of all plates written in ink on end papers of vol. 1-4.
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