Pietro della Valle | Viaggi. Rome, 1650, 4 volumes, 8vo, speckled calf

Pietro della Valle

Viaggi. Il pellegrino, con minuro regguaglio di tutte le cofe notabili osseruate in essi, desocritti da lui medesimo in 54 lettere familiari, da diuersiluoghi della intrapresa peregrinatione. Roma: Vitale Mascardi, 1650

4 volumes, 8vo (213 x 153mm.), titles with armorial devices, volume one: dedication with illuminated initials, note to the reader with decorative band and illuminated initial, note from the printer, song, dedication to Pope Innocent X, printed title page with engraved device; volume 2: dedication to Alessandro Settimo and a note to the reader; volume 3: dedication to Cardinal Flavio Chigi; volume 4: dedication to Alessandro Settimo, note to the reader with decorated band and illuminated initial; contemporary speckled calf rebacked, spines in compartments with raised bands gilt, marbled edges, some foxing and browning, a few marginal wormholes, covers repaired, joints starting, slightly rubbed

A HANDSOME SET.

PROVENANCE:

Ham Court, bookplate