Italy - Sicily - ORVILLE (Jacques-Philippe d').
Italy - Sicily - ORVILLE (Jacques-Philippe d').
Sicula, in which the ruins of ancient Sicily are illustrated, with added plates of antiquities. [...] Amsterdam, Gérard Tielenburg, 1764. 2 volumes (continuous pagination) in one folio volume, modern amateur binding in green percaline.
Rare first edition of this sought-after work, devoted to the antiquities of Sicily, published by Pieter Burman the Younger.
The illustrations consist of a portrait engraved by Houbraken after Quinkhard, a repeated title vignette, a heraldic banner, and 52 (of 54) out-of-text plates, including 20 numismatic plates. Plates 29 (p. 268 A) and 34 (p. xxv) are missing. A few small foxing spots. (Brunet, IV, 247; Cicognara, no. 2689.)
Italy - Sicily - ORVILLE (Jacques-Philippe d').
Sicula, in which the ruins of ancient Sicily are illustrated, with added plates of antiquities. [...] Amsterdam, Gérard Tielenburg, 1764. 2 volumes (continuous pagination) in one folio volume, modern amateur binding in green percaline.
Rare first edition of this sought-after work, devoted to the antiquities of Sicily, published by Pieter Burman the Younger.
The illustrations consist of a portrait engraved by Houbraken after Quinkhard, a repeated title vignette, a heraldic banner, and 52 (of 54) out-of-text plates, including 20 numismatic plates. Plates 29 (p. 268 A) and 34 (p. xxv) are missing. A few small foxing spots. (Brunet, IV, 247; Cicognara, no. 2689.)
