SMOLLETT, Tobias (1721-71). Travels through France and Italy ... With a particular Description of the Town, Territory, and Climate of Nice, London: R. Baldwin, 1766. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles (stain at upper corner towards end of vol. one). Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines with raised bands and red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities rubbed, some erosion to head and foot of spine of vol. one). Provenance : W. Willis (old signature on front free endpapers). FIRST EDITION. Rothschild 1921. With 4 other travel works in 6 volumes, G. Burnet's Some Letters Containing an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy &c. (Rotterdam, 1686), P. Brydone's A Tour through Sicily and Malta ... The Third Edition (Dublin, 1775, 2 vols.), Hester Lynch Piozzi's Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany (London, 1789, 2 vols., rebacked) and N. W. Wraxall's A Tour through the Western, Southern, and Interior Provinces of France (London, 1784), all in contemporary calf. (8)
SMOLLETT, Tobias (1721-71). Travels through France and Italy ... With a particular Description of the Town, Territory, and Climate of Nice, London: R. Baldwin, 1766. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles (stain at upper corner towards end of vol. one). Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines with raised bands and red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities rubbed, some erosion to head and foot of spine of vol. one). Provenance : W. Willis (old signature on front free endpapers). FIRST EDITION. Rothschild 1921. With 4 other travel works in 6 volumes, G. Burnet's Some Letters Containing an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy &c. (Rotterdam, 1686), P. Brydone's A Tour through Sicily and Malta ... The Third Edition (Dublin, 1775, 2 vols.), Hester Lynch Piozzi's Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany (London, 1789, 2 vols., rebacked) and N. W. Wraxall's A Tour through the Western, Southern, and Interior Provinces of France (London, 1784), all in contemporary calf. (8)
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