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SMOLETT (Tobias)
Travels through France and Italy
Introduction par Thomas Seccombe, The World's classics, 1907– in-12, 364 pp – rel. bradel vert., cart. éd. d'ép.
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Intéressant ouvrage d'un voyage à travers la France et l'Italie, composé des lettres de Tobias Smolett, auteur anglais important du XVIIIème siècle. Belle marque de libraire Shakespeare and company Kilometer zero Paris. Très bon ex.
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4 book(s) with the same title
Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added, a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city.
London, Printed for R. Baldwin, 1766. 2 volumes in-8 de [4]-372; [4]-296 pages, plein veau moucheté brun, dos à nerfs ornés de filets dorés, pièces de titre et tomaison beige, tranches rouges. Ex-libris Boyve.
Edition originale. Le récit de voyage de Smollett connaît un succès important. Il attire alors les toutes premières familles anglaises fortunées et les artistes en mal d'inspiration sur la Riviera. En dépit de sa mauvaise humeur et de son caractère difficile, il se révèle un reporter curieux, avisé, original d'esprit et doté d'un regard aiguisé sur les choses. Il décrit les ombres et les lumières de cette contrée, les désagréments du climat et la beauté des fleurs et sa douceur hivernale. L'influence niçoise marque son inspiration littéraire ultérieure. Accroc à la coiffe du premier volume, deux coins à peine frottés.
TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1935. In-16. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 352 pages - Tranches de tete bleutées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS / COPYRIGHT 1935. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Travels from France to Italy, through the Lepontine Alps; or, an itinerary from Lyons to Turin, by the way of Pays-de-Vaud, the Vallais, and across the Monts Great St. Bernard, Simplon, and St. Gothard: with topographical and historical descriptions of the principal places which lie contiguous to the route; including some philosophical observations on the natural history and elevation of that part of the Alps to which are added remarks on the course of the Rhone from its source to the Mediterranean Sea.
London, Printed by S. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1800, in-folio, 4 leaves (1 blank - printed title-page - advertisements - contents) + 1 engraved title-page with view + 218 p. + 1 blank leaf + 1 folded handcoloured engraved map ‘Chart of places... including the principal peaks of that chain of the alps from the Buchetta to Mont St. Gotthard’ + 1 townmap of Lyon in black + 25 plates printed in brown (soot brown or ‘bistre’), with most of the original protective tissue gards (mostly browned in the margins), some waterstains to the lower margins of the engraved title-page and some others, hw. ownership on first free fly ‘J. Matilda Scott’, Original leather spine, boards with rests of orig.-paper.
First edition, reprinted in 1806. This book has never been translated into French. Illustrated engraved titlepage with view followed by the numbered plates I to XXVII, which include 1 general coloured map, 1 town-plan of Lyon printed in black and 25 views printed in bistre, all after drawings by Albanis Beaumont. (Liste of plates available). Abbey: Travel in Aquatint & Lithography n° 53; Wäber, 109; Perret 333: Bel album très rare et très recherché pour la qualité des illustrations. Image disp.
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Travels through the Low Countries, Germany, Italy and France, with Curious Observations, Natural, Topographical, Moral, Physiological &c Also a Catalogue of Plants, Found spontaneously growing in those Parts and their Virtues.
London J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch..et al. 1738
Second edition. Volume I only (of two). Full leather binding with gilt details and titles. The leather is a little rubbed and the gilt faded. Slight cracking to the hinge, but holding well. Complete with three engraved plates (two folding). All three of the engraved plates are found in this, the first of the two volumes. Engraved capitals and end pieces. Internally in good clean condition, in a good, tight condition. Owner's name to the head of the title page. iv, 428, 120 pp. 205 x 130 mm (8 x 5 inches). John Ray was an English naturalist, widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists, and the man with whom "the adventure of modern science begins".
