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Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, André.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Voyage historique, littéraire et pittoresque dans les isles et possessions ci-devant vénitiennes du Levant; savoir: Corfou, Paxo, Bucintro, Parga, Prevesa, Vonizza, Sainte-Maure, Thiaqui, Céphalonie, Zante, Strophades, Cérigo et Cérigotte. Paris: chez Tavernier, an VIII [1800]
- paper
First edition, 3 volumes text and atlas, together 4 volumes, 8vo (212 x 134mm.) and 4to (310 x 230mm.), text with half-titles, atlas with 30 engraved plates and maps, one folding, uniform modern blue half morocco, uncut, text with original blue wrappers bound in, bookplate of Wilmet-Vallier in 2 vol., [Atabey 517; Blackmer 722; Weber II 593], half-title and titles of text with stamps removed and strengthened, wrappers strengthened at edges and with hand-written label on upper covers “Corfou”, some spotting to text
Catalogue Note
An important work describing the Ionian islands shortly after their acquisition by the French in 1797.