- 47
[Pacifico, Pietro Antonio]
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Descrittione delle provincie che formano la tanto decantata penisola della Morea. Venice: presso Girolamo Albrizzi, 1686
first edition, 2 parts in one volume, 12mo (160 x 90mm.), engraved frontispiece and folding map in part 1, 14 engraved plates and 4 full-page illustrations in part 2, a few plates folding, eighteenth-century carta rustica, uncut, somewhat stained at head of page, binding slightly soiled
Literature
Atabey 915 (highly imperfect); Blackmer 1233 (second edition); Weber II, 737
Catalogue Note
very rare copy of Pacifico's first account of the Morea. Only the Atabey copy of this work, which was highly imperfect with only 3 of the 14 plates, is recorded at auction by ABPC in over 30 years.