Voyage en Italie et en Sicile

First edition, illustrated with 2 in-text figures and two hors-texte (repeated), as well as a table (population movement in the city of Rome).
Contemporary half-calf binding in glazed hazelnut. Spine with false raised bands decorated with thick and thin fillets, in blind and gilt, roulette at head and foot. Black shagreen title label. Signs of rubbing. Scattered browning, notably on title page, then mainly in margins, but erratically. Small lack to lower joint at foot. Handsome copy.
Journey that begins at Lake Maggiore in Duomo d'Ossola, a small town on the Italian border in 1817 and ends in 1818 at Suse, near Turin. Beyond the interest of the journey to Sicily and Etna, to Pompeii and Herculaneum, the entire journey shines with certain political resonances, since it was made in the aftermath of the Empire and at the dawn of the Italian revolutions. Numerous descriptions relating to the fine arts, interest in the picturesque and anecdote (chapter on beggars and highwaymen in Italy).