Giuseppe ACERBI
Voyage au Cap-Nord, par la Suède, la Finlande et la Laponie[Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799]
Schoell et Comp. • Levrault|Paris AN XII (1804)|22.5 x 29.5 cm|3 volumes reliés + 1 Atlas
First edition of the French translation, revised under the author's supervision, by Joseph Lavallée, of this highly regarded travel account.
The atlas includes 16 plates depicting views and natural history subjects, 12 pages of engraved music, and 1 folding map (cf. Monglond VI 729–730).
Contemporary bindings in half blond calf over green vellum-tipped boards, smooth spines decorated with gilt tooling, yellow edges, for the three text volumes.
Contemporary binding for the atlas in half green sheep with vellum tips, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, soft green paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Wormholes on title pages, scuffed bo
€1,000