Jean LEVESQUE DE BURIGNY
Histoire generale de Sicile
Chez Isaac Beauregard • Pierre Gosse|à La Haye [The Hague] 1745|19.50 x 25 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, rare. Title pages in red and black. Typographic ornaments: headpieces, tailpieces, initials. Lacking the two maps normally found in volume 1.
Contemporary full marbled sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with acorn tools in compartments. Brown morocco title labels and red morocco volume labels. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. 2 small cracks at head of first volume. Fine domino paper endpapers. Some leaves yellowed, occasional worming. Handsome copy.
The introductory chapter treats the arts in Sicily under Antiquity, then studies their history from earliest Antiquity with the establishment of the Phoenicians in Sicily and the founding of Palermo up
Contemporary full marbled sheep bindings. Spines with raised bands decorated with acorn tools in compartments. Brown morocco title labels and red morocco volume labels. Rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. 2 small cracks at head of first volume. Fine domino paper endpapers. Some leaves yellowed, occasional worming. Handsome copy.
The introductory chapter treats the arts in Sicily under Antiquity, then studies their history from earliest Antiquity with the establishment of the Phoenicians in Sicily and the founding of Palermo up
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