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Raccolta de' Viaggi piu interessanti: eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo
by Giovanni Battista Sonzogno
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Extraordinary pocket edition of exotic travel illustrations for a Regency armchair traveller.
Set of fine plates only from Sonzogno's attractive Italian editions of great travels books from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Covering ethnography, costume, landscape, ceremonies, natural history and more from Africa, China, South America, Europe, Turkey, the Pacific, etc.
With 175 copperplate engravings (15 b/w) by Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Duche-de-Vancy, etc., most handcoloured by Lazaretti, after various artists.
The plates from:
John Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812.
Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1809.
Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage, 1797.
Samuel Holmes' Journal of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1798.
Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer's An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 1799.
Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1799.
Francois Le Vaillant's Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa, 1795.
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801.
Francois Pouqueville's Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805.
Leopold von Buch's Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813.
Captain Samuel Turner's Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, 1800.
Peter Simon Pallas' Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812.
Ali Bey el Abbassi's Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey, 1816.
Andrew Swinton's Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792.
Bound in decorative cloth, worn and stained, marble endpapers, no title page, plates very clean and bright with vibrant hand-colour by Lazaretti and little spotting.
Set of fine plates only from Sonzogno's attractive Italian editions of great travels books from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Covering ethnography, costume, landscape, ceremonies, natural history and more from Africa, China, South America, Europe, Turkey, the Pacific, etc.
With 175 copperplate engravings (15 b/w) by Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Duche-de-Vancy, etc., most handcoloured by Lazaretti, after various artists.
The plates from:
John Mawe's Travels in the Interior of Brazil, 1812.
Felix de Azara's Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale, 1809.
Jean Francois Laperouse's Voyage, 1797.
Samuel Holmes' Journal of a Voyage to China and Tartary, 1798.
Joseph Billings and Martin Sauer's An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia, 1799.
Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa, 1799.
Francois Le Vaillant's Second Voyage into the Interior of Africa, 1795.
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier's Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801.
Francois Pouqueville's Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805.
Leopold von Buch's Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813.
Captain Samuel Turner's Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet, 1800.
Peter Simon Pallas' Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812.
Ali Bey el Abbassi's Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey, 1816.
Andrew Swinton's Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792.
Bound in decorative cloth, worn and stained, marble endpapers, no title page, plates very clean and bright with vibrant hand-colour by Lazaretti and little spotting.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo207
- Title
- Raccolta de' Viaggi piu interessanti
- Author
- Giovanni Battista Sonzogno
- Illustrator
- Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Lazaretti, Duche-de-Vancy,
- Format/Binding
- Decorative cloth, marble endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dalia tipografia di Giambattista Sonzogno
- Place of Publication
- Milan
- Date Published
- 1815-17
- Pages
- 175
- Size
- 12mo, 16 x 11cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- travel, exploration, Sonzogno, Voyages, Raccolta de Viaggi, illustration, copperplate engraving, Lazaretti, Dall'Acqua,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costume;
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
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About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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