Lettres sur l'Italie, en 1785.

  • Paris: Jean Mourer, 1789
By Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier .
Paris: Jean Mourer, 1789. Good. 12mo (19cm); 2 volumes: half-titles, viii, 230, 236 pages. Title page vignettes. Typographical headpieces. Bound in original two-color woodblock decorated paper covers, worn. Decorated paper restored along spine in volume II. Preserved in custom-built slipcase. Untrimmed copy, with many sheets unopened.

A leading Parisian magistrate records his travels in Italy at the height of the age of the Grand Tour, paying less attention perhaps to art than to political systems and legal institutions.

Details

Title

Lettres sur l'Italie, en 1785.

Author

Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier .

Condition

Good

Publisher

Jean Mourer: Paris

Date

1789


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