Lettres sur le Prejudice Qu'Occasionneroient aux Arts et a la Science, le Deplacement des Monumens de l'Art de L'Italie, le Demembrement de ses Ecoles, et la Spoliation de Ses Collections, Galeries, Musees, etc.

Rome: [not identified], 1815. Softcover. VG (loose covers, some loss to paper covers, light soiling to wraps and pages, several pencil marks throughout. Age toning to pages as expected but text is clear.). Plain blue paper wraps, 98 pp, no illustrations, pages are untrimmed. Text is in French. Translated from title page: "New edition, made on that of Paris of 1796.". Title half page reads: "Lettres sur le projet d'enlever les monumens de l'Italie" (Letters on the project to remove the monuments of Italy). "Seven letters originally written in 1796 to General Francisco de Miranda. The letters were reprinted in 1839, together with a collection of letters written by Quatremère de Quincy to Antonio Canova, under the collective title: Lettres sur l'enlèvement des ouvrages de l'art antique a Athènes et a Rome" -WorldCat record. (Inventory #: 180822)