Alberto FORTIS
Lettre de M. l'abbé Fortis à Mylord Comte de Bute, sur les moeurs et usages des Morlaques, appellés [sic] Monténégrins[Letter from Abbé Fortis to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bute, on the Manners and Customs of the Morlachs, called [sic] Montenegrins]
Société typographique|Bern 1778|13 x 20.5 cm|Broché
Rare first edition illustrated with 2 out-of-text plates, hand-coloured at the time, depicting Morlach costumes (cf. Conlon 78:960. Not recorded by Quérard.)
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, under the period plain grey covers (spine lacking, covers with tears and detached, corners bumped, a few foxing spots, final endpaper stained at foot).
We have encountered another copy of this work illustrated with a single folding plate containing 3 figures.
Pages 78 to 85 contain a song in the Morlach language, with a French translation printed opposite.
€950