Wynne, Giustina, Countess of Rosenberg

FIRST EDITION, 4to (274 x 192mm.), engraved title, folding plan and 29 plates, one large and folding, contemporary calf, binding rubbed and rebacked

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A rare description in French of Angelo Querini's country house, garden and outdoor sculpture, dedicated to William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister in 1782-83. The plates describe the sculptures, subsequently dispersed, of what was considered one of the most significant Italian gardens of the period.

Giustina Wynne was an Anglo-Italian adventuress, who had been Casanova's mistress before she married Count Orsini Rosenberg, Austrian ambassador to the Venetian Republic.