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‎Voyage en Italie. 2 vols.‎

‎trois Rome: journal d'un voyage en Italie. 4 vols.‎

‎, Bruxelles, Goemaere, , 1854 relie, demi-maroquin vert,dos lisse ornee , 291+356+332+384pp avec essai sur les inscriptions et table des matieres.‎

‎avec Plan de Rome ancienne et moderne + Plan de Rome souterraine ou des catacombes. 4 vols complet‎

‎Voyage en Italie. 2 vols.‎

‎" Paris, Gaume Frères, 1836, 2 vols. in-12°, 14 x 9 cm, 216 pp ; 243 pp, contemporary full leather, gilt decorated spine and covers, supralibro on the frontcover (arms of Ecole de Pont-Levoy with the legend ""religioni et patriae""), marbled endpapers, green edges, ex-libris (or prize) label removed. This is the second edition. The author, Jean-Joseph Gaume (1802 - 1879) was a French theologian. Still a nice binding although the spines are a bit discoloured and there is some slight wear at the extremities. (Jolie reliure contemporaine avec un supralibro de L'École de Pont-Levoy)."‎

‎Voyage D'Italie, contenant les Moeurs des peuples, la description des Villes Capitales, des Eglises, Convents, Tombeaux, Bibliotheques (...). 2 vols. - [THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GUIDEBOOK OF ITS DAY - COINING ""GRAND TOUR""]‎

‎Paris, Ballaine, 1671. 8vo. Two part bound in one contemporary full calf binding with five raised bandes. Wear to extremities. Upper capital chipped, with a bit of loss of leather, showing endbands. Inner front hinge split. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. Small worm-tract to inner margin, not affecting text. (36), 436, 341 pp. ‎

‎The exceedingly rare first French translation of Lassels‘ travel-guide, considered the first comprehensive guide to Italy it quickly became the most influential English guidebook of its day. The concept of the “Grand Tour” was also first introduced here. Lassels’ asserts that any truly serious student of architecture, antiquity, and the arts must travel through France and Italy, and suggested that all ""young lords"" make what he referred to as the Grand Tour in order to understand and learn about the political, social and economic realities of the world. “The idea of tourism as self-enriching rather than soul-preserving come truly into vogue between 16th and 18th centuries. The Grand Tour, a term first used in the French translation of a ‘Voyage or a Compleat Journey through Italy’ by Richard Lassels published in 1670, encompassed experience (including sexual), education and exchange of ideas, creating the largest and most independent wandering “academy” – a sort of finishing school – that Western civilization had ever known”. (White, Museum and Heritage Tourism). “The term ‘Grand Tour’ itself first appeared in the French translation of Richard Lassels’ Voyage or a Complete Journey Through Italy, which was published in 1670. This was one of a number of accounts of travel on the Continent, most of which were written by Englishmen, and by the early eighteenth century, there was a steady stream of such publications. The eighteenth century then saw a massive growth in the production of books, newspapers, and other printed material, and this encouraged the development of different types of writing and publishing, including travel accounts. There also emerged travel guides, the most useful of which was probably The Grand Tour containing an Exact Description of most of the Cities, Towns and Remarkable Places of Europe by Mr [Thomas] Nugent, first published in four volumes in 1743, and repeatedly republished. An alternative was The Gentleman’s Pocket Companion for Travelling into Foreign Parts, first published in 1722, which contained a list of useful phrases at the end, but not, perhaps, those which the wellbred young man should employ.” (Kathleen Burk, The Grand Tour of Europe) The most influential English guidebook of the period, conditioning the first impressions of many a tourist to that country. It also provided the basis for subsequent guidebooks . . . The unprecedented attention it paid to art and architecture encouraged the phenomenon of the eighteenth-century style 'grand tour' (a term coined by Lassels) according to which art prevailed over all other subjects, religious or secular"" (ODNB). The original English edition was published in 1670. French translations were published it 1671 and 1682. A German translation titled 'Ausführliche Reise-Beschreibung durch Italien' appeared in Frankfurt editions in 1673 and 1696. It was reprinted well into the 1700ies. Provenance: A large Danish estate.‎

‎Voyage d'Italie de Monsieur Misson, avec un Mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le même voyage. Cinquième édition, plus ample et plus correcte que les précédentes, enrichie de nouvelles figures... 4 vols. - [BEAUTIFUL TRAVEL GUIDE TO ITALY]‎

‎Utrech, Guillaume van Water & Jacques van Poolsum, 1722. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 4 magnificent contemporary full calf Cambridge-style bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Gilt frames to boards and blind-tooled ornamentation to edges of boards. Boards with wormtracts, primarily affecting vol. IV. Small wormtract effecting frist half of vol. III. An overall nice set. (46), 339, (20) pp. + 32 folded plates (including frontispiece) 356, (24) + 39 engraved plates 414, (19) pp. + 7 plates. (6), 347, (7) pp. + 1 ‎

‎Fourth edition of this important and influential travel-guide to Italy. Misson travelled through Italy during 1687 and 1688, and in 1691 published the Nouveau voyage d'ltalie, which was to be the standard travel guide to Italy for the following fifty years. Provenance: From a large Danish estate. ‎

‎Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant. Fait en 1675 & 1676. 3 vols. - [""ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACCOUNTS OF TRAVEL IN THE LEVANT""]‎

‎Lyon, Antoine Cellier, 1678. 8vo. Uniformly bound in three contemporary full calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-labels pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities, particularly to head and foot of spines, vol. 2. with some loss of leather. Vol. 1 with dampstain to upper outer margin, otherwise internally nice and clean. (24), 405 pp." 417, (13) pp. 204, 226 pp. + frontispiece and 32 plates and maps.‎

‎Rare first edition of Spon’s famous travel account" “one of the most important accounts of travels in the Levant, and the first description of Athens which was systematic, detailed and trustworthy"" (Blackmer) – it remained an important reference up until the 19th century. “The three-volume account of Spon's voyage was first published in Lyon in 1678. It constituted a major literary event, and became a landmark in travel literature. It is the product of first-hand investigation, free of plagiarism and also touches on contemporary issues in the Greek territories which he visited. The second volume includes an important glossary of modern Greek words, for travellers' use, while the third volume is dedicated exclusively to the inscriptions and coins collected by Spon during his journey. Spon's travel account was republished in French and was translated into English. Four years later, George Wheler published his own account of their journey, which is in fact but a mediocre copy of Spon's work. In 1680, Spon published his “History of Geneva” and in 1685 an catalogue of ancient Greek inscriptions.” (Vingopoulou, Aikaterini Laskarids Foundartion).‎