1775 Dictionnaire Historique et Geographique Portatif De L'Italie
What Our Customers Say...
Description
Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
French. Complete in two volumes. Scarce work. A portable historical and geographical dictionary of Italy containing descriptions of the kingdoms, republics, states, provinces, cities, and principal places of the country with observations on commerce, engineering, morals, and industry. Includes details of music, painting, architecture, and other remarkable objects or places, as well as sites of interest. Together with the history of the Kings, Popes, Great Men, famous writers, artists, warriors, and more. Volume one contains A to M, and volume two contains M to Z.
Condition
In the original full mottled calf binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the boards. Light loss to the head of the spines with spine title label lost and volume label loosening to volume one, and minor loss to the volume label of volume two. Front joint cracked to the head of volume one. Internally, firmly bound with front endpaper loosening to volume one. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark and small marks to the endpapers.
Good
Delivery & payment
We send all of our books via courier which is a fully tracked and insured service. In our experience we find this to be the most reliable and quickest form of delivery. Our primary courier is DHL, but we are able to accommodate special requests if required, including postal delivery for items under 2kg. See More Details